Hello everyone, I'm a short article. The moral of painting the snake and adding feet. Many people don't know what the moral of painting the snake and adding feet means. Now let's have a look!
1. The implication of adding feet to snakes is to tell people that snakes originally had no feet. People who first painted them as snakes added feet to snakes, but they didn't become snakes.
2. The snake had no feet but was forced to add feet to it. This is a metaphor for doing things in a superfluous way, which is bad.
3. In rural terms, six fingers scratch more.
4. Later, he used the metaphor of "painting the snake to add feet", which means that people should seek truth from facts in everything they do, and should not show off their intelligence, otherwise, instead of doing a good job, they will ruin things.
5. Idiom story 1. In ancient times, there was a family in the State of Chu who was ready to give the sacrificial wine to those who helped with the work after sacrificing their ancestors. But there were many people. How should we divide this pot of wine? At last, someone suggested that everyone draw a snake on the ground and give the pot of wine to whoever draws fast and well.
6. One person painted very quickly, and when he finished painting first, he would drink when he picked up the wine pot.
7. 2. But when he looked back and saw that others had not finished the painting, he was a little complacent.
8. If you want to show your ability, you can draw feet for the snake.
9. While he was drawing the feet of the snake, another person had already drawn them.
10. The man took the wine pot back and said: Have you ever seen a snake? A snake has no feet. Why do you add feet to it? So I, not you, was the first person to draw a good snake.
11. The truth revealed by painting the snake with the feet 1. Don't do anything superfluous, or you will sometimes lose something, lose more than you gain, and become self defeating.
12. (To do more than that is not beneficial, but harmful.
13. ) Whatever you do, you should respect the objective facts and seek truth from facts.
14. 2. To do something, we must have specific requirements and clear goals. We must pursue it with a clear and firm will and accomplish it without being overwhelmed by victory.
15. Those who are carried away by victory are often blinded by blind optimism and lead to failure.
16. All things should follow the laws of nature. Don't do anything superfluous, or you will be self defeating.
