1. Suspicious neighbor stole axe

Once upon a time there was a countryman who lost an axe. He thought that the neighbor's son had stolen it, so he paid attention to every word and action of the man. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the man looked like an ax thief.

Later, the person who lost the ax found the ax. It turned out that when he went up the mountain to cut firewood a few days ago, he accidentally lost it in the valley. After finding the ax, he met the neighbor's son again. If he looked at him carefully, he didn't look like a thief.

2. Pulling the seedlings to encourage growth

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer in the Song Dynasty. He always thought that the crops in the field grew too slowly. It seems that I never grow taller. He thought to himself: Is there any way to make them grow taller and faster?

One day, he came to the field and pulled up the seedlings one by one. It took a lot of effort to pull out a large field of seedlings one by one. By the time he finished pulling out the seedlings, he was exhausted, but he was very happy in his heart.

When he got home, he boasted: "I was exhausted today. I helped the seedlings grow several inches taller!" After hearing this, his son hurried to the field to take a look and found that the seedlings in the field were growing taller. The seedlings have all withered.

3. Incurable

There was a minister in the Zhou Dynasty named Fan Bo. Fan Bo was not only talented in poetry, but also good at managing state affairs. Later, he assisted King Zhou Li in government affairs. However, King Li of Zhou was domineering and judged things in vain. The treacherous officials will use all kinds of flattery to please them. Fan Bo spoke frankly and enumerated the shortcomings of the government, but the treacherous ministers spoke ill of him in the ears of King Zhou Li.

King Zhou Li was very tired of Fan Bo. From then on, treacherous officials came in and out of the palace and did not take Fan Bo seriously. Fan Bo was very angry and wrote a poem, which was later included in the Book of Songs. The poem criticized the treacherous ministers and said: "He has done many evil things and is incurable!"

4. Riding the wind and waves

In ancient times in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a general in the Song Dynasty whose surname was Zong Ming. He was brave since he was a child. , also very ambitious. One day, Zongci's uncle asked him what his ambition was. Zongci replied: "I would like to ride the long wind and break thousands of miles of waves." It means: I must break through all obstacles, move forward bravely, and do something great.

After diligent study and hard work, Zong Tie finally became a general who was good at fighting. Later, people used the term "ride the wind and waves" to describe the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and moving forward courageously.

5. A strip of water

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Yangtze River was the boundary between the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north and the Chen Kingdom in the south. Yang Jian, the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, deposed Emperor Zhou Jing, became emperor himself, and established the Sui Dynasty.

He was determined to destroy Chen Guo. He once said: "I am the parent of the people in the country. How can I watch the people in the south suffer and not save them just because there is a Yangtze River as narrow as a belt across the country?" They? Later, people used the term "a strip of water" to describe two places that are very close to each other and are only separated by a narrow body of water.