| Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely
used in Chinese people's daily life. There are often stories
behind Chinese proverbs. We will introduce one proverb,
'plucking up a crop to help it grow.' This Chinese proverb
is based on the following story.
It is said that a short tempered man in the Song Dynasty
(960-1279) was very anxious to hope his rice crop growing
up quickly. He was thinking about this day and night.
But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.
One day, he thought a solution to this. He plucked
up all of his crop a few inches.
Even though he was very tired after doing this for a
whole day, but he felt very happy since the crop did
'grow' higher.
His son heard about this and went to see the crop.
Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in
its natural course. Being too anxious to help an event
to develop often results in the contrary to our intent.
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