The snake swallows the elephant if the human heart is not enough

From "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Hai Nei Nan Jing": "The snake eats the elephant and its bones are born at the age of three." Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period, "Tian Wen" ": "If a snake swallows an elephant, how can it be bigger?"

Example Luo Hongxian's poem: "If the human heart is not enough, the snake will swallow the elephant, and all the world will end is the mantis catching the cicada." ——Zhai Hao, Qing Dynasty, "Popular Edition· Birds and Fishes" 》

Grammar complex sentence structure; used as object, attributive, clause; with derogatory connotation

As a famous saying to encourage the world, there are different versions circulating in different places. However, the purpose of advising people to be content and happy is consistent with the purpose of keeping one's duty in a certain sense. The philosophical education contained in it has enlightened generations of people in history. It is still of great significance in correctly guiding people's consciousness in the current materialistic society. .

People can be self-disciplined and self-abstinent, and not do things that harm others, benefit themselves, harm the world, or push themselves too far, bring themselves to blame, and suffer bad deeds. This is more effective than praying to God and worshiping Buddha to protect themselves from corruption, murder, and extravagance. Unparalleled.

In short, the rich cultural connotation condensed by "the human heart is not enough, the snake swallows the elephant" has long become a bright flower among the hundreds of flowers of our Chinese nation's cultural heritage, and has become a magic weapon for us to persuade each other and self-motivate, and to conduct ourselves and do things in the world. one.