The next sentence is "starve to death and never enter the radish garden". Because eating too much radish is bad for your health, and stealing radish is bad for your backbone, so people say this.

The ancients said that these proverbs were all summed up by their own experience, and more often they were described in some simple and popular languages. These proverbs are often circulated by later generations, and they can also be regarded as the predecessors planting trees and enjoying the cool. After listening to these ancient sayings, people can know what to do and what not to do.

and this proverb is to warn future generations not to go into the radish garden if they starve to death. The first reason is that radish is an appetizing food. If you eat this when you are hungry, you will not be full, but you will become more and more hungry. Isn't that counterproductive? And this radish is a cold food with a lot of water, which is easy to cause edema. If a person is too hungry to eat this radish, it is likely to hurt his body and even endanger his life.

Another reason is that ancient people felt that even if they were starved to death, they could not steal, which would make them look particularly spineless. If you go into a radish garden and you are starving, you will definitely want to eat it. But once you squat down and have this intention to steal radishes, it has already formed a theft. If someone sees it at this time, even if you don't intend to steal, you will be accused of theft. In the end, it is very likely that you didn't steal the radish, and you also got a bad reputation for stealing.

It is quite reasonable to say that you don't go into the radish garden just to prevent yourself from eating bad health or getting a bad reputation. It can be seen that proverbs are not made by the ancients, but are well-founded.