Result: Counterproductive

Title:

Destroy the seedlings and encourage them to thrive

Dynasty:

Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period

Pinyin:

bá

miáo

zhù

zhǎng

Source

"Mencius·Volume 3": "There was a man in the Song Dynasty who pinched his seedlings because they were not growing. He returned home confused and said to him: 'I am sick today. I will help the seedlings to grow.' His son followed him. Looking at it, the seedlings are dying."

Explanation

It is a metaphor for violating the objective laws of the development of things and being eager for success will lead to bad things

There was a farmer in the Song Dynasty. , he was worried that the seedlings in his field would not grow tall, so he anxiously walked around the field every day, hoping that the seedlings would grow taller quickly. One day, he suddenly thought of a way, which was to raise the seedlings one by one. So he worked from morning to sunset and was exhausted.

When he returned home, he was very tired and said panting: "Today has made me exhausted! The seedlings I helped have grown a lot taller." After hearing this, his son hurried to When I looked in the field, I saw that all the seedlings were dead.