Let s make up a story related to Drawing Snakes

A housekeeper in Chu State got a pot of wine from his master, and felt that it was too little for several people to drink together, and too much for one person to drink alone, so he asked several people to draw snakes on the ground, and drank the first one that was drawn.

Before he could draw the feet, the other man took the jug and took the jug and said, "The snake has no feet, so how can you add feet?" After saying that, he drank the wine.

The man who drew the snake's feet finally didn't drink.

Painting the snake to add feet originally means to add feet to the snake when drawing the snake. The latter parable does superfluous things, and instead of being useful, it is inappropriate. It is also a metaphor for fictional facts, making things out of nothing.

From Han Liu Xiang's "Warring States Policy: Qi Ce": Chu has an ancestral hall; Give him wine to his family. The people of the house said:

Insufficient drinking for several people; One person has more than enough to drink; Please draw the ground as a snake; The first to drink alcohol. One person snakes first; Draw wine and drink it; It is the left hand holding the scumbag; Draw a snake in the right hand; Said: I can not do enough.

Unsuccessful; A snake of one man; Take it and say: The snake has no feet; Zi'an can be enough. And he drank his wine.

for serpent-footed ones; There is no wine in the end.

Translation: There was a person in Chu who engaged in sacrificial activities, and after the sacrifice was over, he took out a pot of wine and gave it to the people to drink. The doormen discussed with each other and said that they would bring it

This pot of wine is not enough for everyone to drink, and there is a surplus for one person to drink. We each competed to draw snakes on the ground, and the one who drew first drank the pot of wine. ”

There was a man who had finished drawing the snake first, and he picked up the flask and was about to drink it, but he held the flask in his left hand and continued to draw the snake with his right hand, saying, "I can draw its feet." Before he could finish drawing, another man had quietly drawn the snake book, snatched the pot and said, "

The snake has no feet, how can you draw its feet! Then he drank the wine from the jug. The one who paints the snake's feet, ends up losing the wine.

Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall".

Legend has it that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, the labor was heavy, and the young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu were newly married for three days, and the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger and cold, and his bones were buried under the city wall of Chang Hunger. Meng Jiangnu was wearing a cold coat and went through hardships, looking for her husband and coming to the Great Wall, but what she got was the bad news of her husband's death. She cried bitterly under the city, seven days and seven nights, this section of the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body, Meng Jiangnu buried Fan Xiliang and then threw herself into the sea in despair.

Draw a snake then put legs on it. During the Warring States Period, the owner of a temple in the Chu State gave a pot of wine to several disturbed individuals who guarded the temple. There are too many people and too little alcohol to drink.

It was suggested that whoever drew a snake first would be given the pot of wine. Everyone agreed and drew it. One of them finished drawing first, and when he saw that others were still drawing, he drew four more legs for the snake.

At this time, another man also finished drawing, and the man said, "There are no feet, you are not drawing a snake." With that, he drank the wine.

Please draw snakes on the ground, and the one who draws them first drink this pot of wine. A man who first drew the snake took the jug and was ready to drink, but he took the jug in his left hand and drew the snake in his right hand and said, "I can draw its feet."

Before he had finished drawing the serpent, another man snatched his flask and said, "The serpent has no feet, so how can you draw its feet?" As soon as he had finished speaking, he finished the jug of wine.

The man who drew the snake's feet ended up losing the jug of wine The story tells people that the snake had no feet, and the person who drew the snake first added the snake's feet and ended up not becoming a snake. Later, he used a painting snake to add to it, which was a metaphor for extraneous branches, and this was a big move. The 110th chapter of the famous novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms":

Zhang Yi admonished: "The general's achievements have been achieved, and the prestige is great, but he can seep into the silence to stop the shouting, if he advances today, if he is not satisfied, it will be like painting a snake and adding enough feet." "Tell people to be realistic in everything they do, and not to be smart, otherwise instead of doing things well, they will mess things up.

Painting a snake and adding feet is a Chinese Sanlu idiom, from "Warring States Policy: Qi Ce II", which originally meant to add feet to the snake when painting the snake.

In ancient times, after a family in Chu had sacrificed to their ancestors, they were ready to give a pot of wine used in the sacrifice to the people who helped to drink. There are a lot of people who help with errands, and if everyone drinks it, it is not enough to dig up the slag, so someone suggests: everyone draws a snake on the ground, and whoever draws the fastest will give him this pot of wine.

Everyone thought it was a good way to draw snakes on the ground. There was a man who drew very quickly, and he looked back at the others and thought to himself: they are so slow to draw, it is not too late for me to draw a few more feet of the snake.

While he was drawing the snake's feet, another man had already finished drawing. The man said, "Have you ever seen a snake?"

Snakes don't have legs, so the first person to draw a snake is not you, it's me. ”

This story teaches people that doing superfluous things is harmful and that doing too much is bad.