What is the main story of the snipe and the clam fighting?

When Su Dai passed by Yishui, he saw a mussel with its double shell open, basking in the sun by the river. Suddenly, a waterfowl flew and stretched out its long beak to peck at the flesh of the mussel. The mussel immediately pressed its shell shut and clamped the waterfowl's beak.

At this time, the water bird said to the mussels: It doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't rain today and tomorrow, you will die of sunburn. I'll eat your flesh when you're dead.

The mussel was not convinced, and it replied to the water bird: It doesn't matter, as long as your mouth can't be pulled out today, and tomorrow, you won't be able to live. Who eats whose meat, maybe it's anyone!

The two of them quarreled endlessly, and neither of them would give in. While they were arguing, a fisherman came up. Without difficulty, the fisherman reached out and took them together.

[Idiom Story]:

A river mussel spreads its shell and basks in the sun on the river beach. A sandpiper walked past the mussel and stretched out its beak to peck at the mussel's flesh. The mussel hurriedly closed the two shells and clamped the sandpiper's beak tightly.

The sandpiper tried its best, but could not pull out its beak. The mussels can't get out of it, and they can't go back to the river. The mussels and the sandpiper quarreled.

The sandpiper urn said angrily: If it doesn't rain for a day or two, if there is no water, you can't go back to the river, you will always die! The river mussel also said angrily

If I don't let you go, after a day or two, you won't be able to pull your mouth out, and you won't want to live, you will starve to death! The mussels and the sandpiper quarreled non-stop, and no one let anyone. Then a fisherman happened to pass by and caught them both.

Now it is used as a metaphor for the two sides holding each other, and as a result, both sides lose, allowing the third party to benefit.

The Chinese idiom is yù bàng xiāng zhēng, which means that the two sides are at a standstill, and the third party benefits from it.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits"of the provincial language.

From Qing Xiang Lingzi's "Xuanting Injustice and Crying Tomb".

A mussel is coming out of the water to bask in the sun, and a sandpiper pecks at its flesh, and the mussel closes and clamps the sandpiper's beak. The sandpiper said, 'If it doesn't rain today, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, there will be dead mussels.'

The mussel also said to the sandpiper, 'If you can't get out of your mouth today, tomorrow you won't get out of your mouth, and there will be dead sandpipers.' The two refused to give up on each other, and a fisherman caught them together.

"Sandpiper and Clam Fight" tells the story of the sandpiper and the mussel clamping each other, not letting each other go, but allowing the fisherman to profit from it, warning people to weigh the gains and losses in doing things, not to only think about the beneficial side of themselves, to be humble to each other, take a step back and open the sky, blindly clamp each other often take care of one and the other, and let others take advantage of the loopholes.

To be a man, you must learn to be patient, otherwise you will only let the third party benefit from both losses.

Sandpiper and clam fight.

In a hot summer, when the scorching sun is in the sky, the earth is stuffy by a steamer, the lotus flowers are budding in the pond, the lotus leaves are swaying weakly with the wind, and the trees are screaming non-stop, and the whole summer is filled with a sultry atmosphere.

The mussel in the pond was also moved by the scenery outside, so it slowly opened its shell, but when it opened, it looked around and saw nothing, so the mussel relaxed its vigilance and basked in the sun carefree. Suddenly, an egret flew over, it was separated from its companions, it was because of its playfulness that it was separated from its companions, at this time it had not eaten for a few days, the egret saw a group of mussels on the mainland, and immediately flew down, and immediately pecked the flesh of one of the mussels, the mussels panicked, and immediately closed the hard shell and clamped the beak of the egret. Now it was too late for the egret to let go, and when the mussel's companions saw that it had been caught, they closed their shells and fled, and the mussels said to their companions

You have done this to me, you are not my friends. The white crane said, "Don't struggle, your companions won't come to your rescue, don't waste your efforts."

As long as it doesn't rain today and doesn't rain tomorrow, you're going to die. Beng said, "So what."

As long as I don't let you go, your mouth can't be pulled out today, and you can't pull it out tomorrow, then you will be the same as me. "The mussel and the white crane argued for a long time, but neither side would give up, they did not know that danger was coming. A fisherman from a poor family, on whom the family depended for their subsistence, was on his way home, and when he saw a crane and a mussel, he ran over and caught them at once, and the fisherman said:

Great, today's dinner is over. In this way, the mussels and sandpipers were picked up by others, and they fell into bad luck.

1. The competition between the sandpiper and the mussel is about the mussel taking advantage of the sunny weather to open two hard shells and bask in the sun on the river beach. When a sandpiper saw this, it quickly put its beak into the mussel shell and pecked at the meat. The mussel hurriedly closed the hard shell and clamped the sandpiper to its beak.

The story of the two not giving in, and in the end both sides were exhausted and easily caught by passing fishermen.

2. The meaning of this story is that the two sides are at a loss, and the third party benefits from it. The provincial saying of "the snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits". From Qing Xiang Lingzi's "Xuanting Injustice and Crying Tomb".

The mussel side is exposed, and the sandpiper pecks its flesh, and the mussel closes and clamps its beak. The sandpiper said: "If it doesn't rain today, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, there will be dead mussels!" The mussel is also called the sandpiper and said: "If you don't come out today, you won't come out tomorrow, that is, there will be a dead sandpiper!" "The two refused to give up. The fisherman was caught and captured.

Sandpipers and kingfishers compete for a big fish by the river. When the fisherman found out, he stabbed it with a harpoon, but it didn't hit. The sandpiper took the opportunity to snatch the big fish and fled.

A river mussel basks in the sun on the beach with its open mind. The kingfisher pecked at another loach, and the loach struggled to slip off, and fell right on the mussel and was caught, and the kingfisher tried to retrieve the loach from the mussel shell, and the sandpiper flew to chase away the kingfisher, trying to compete with the mussel for the loach. So, the sandpiper and the river mussel engaged in a battle of wisdom and psychology on the beach.

Although the loach was swallowed by the sandpiper, one of its legs was pinched by the mussel. Neither side would give up, and the struggle continued. The sandpiper pretended to nap, and the river mussel slowly opened its two shells, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

The sandpiper suddenly turned around and pecked at it unexpectedly, and the river mussel, which had been prepared, immediately closed and clamped the long beak of the sandpiper to death. At this time, the fisherman, who had been waiting in the reeds, took the opportunity to catch them together.