How did the allusion to the lack of human hearts come about? How can children understand?

This sentence comes from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Southern Classic of the Sea". You can tell your child that snakes are small, but elephants are very large. If a person is greedy, then it will be like a snake trying to eat an elephant, and he will be very painful, and he will be very painful.

From "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The South of the Sea". It means that if the snake wants to swallow the elephant, it will cause itself to be very uncomfortable, and it will feel like its body is now bursting.

The story allusion is as follows:

According to legend, there was a nobleman in the Chu country, and they gave him an ornamental snake, which was very precious, but it was not kept in a basin, but put it in a cage, the key was that the cage had a hole, and the nobleman didn't care about it at that time, but it happened that the snake crawled out of the hole and ate a farmer in Chu.

Then the family of the peasants approached the nobles and demanded compensation, but the nobles were willing to agree, so they annoyed the families of the peasants, and they rose up and led everyone to rebel.

This reached the ears of the emperor, who decided to quell the rebellion and give the nobles a way to live, so that he could kill the leader of the rebellion, so that he could not kill his family.

This nobleman has seen this formation, he has been frightened, the grass and trees are soldiers, feel that the ornamental snake can not be wanted, afraid that it will run away one day, more and more people rebel, so he ordered the snake to be killed, after the snake died, the nobles spent a lot of money to ask skilled craftsmen to inlay the snake's bones on the clock face of the clock.

Since then, people have extended this incident to "the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant", which is a metaphor for the principle of greed and self-trouble.

Hope the above information is helpful to you.

The story of the lack of human hearts and the snake swallowing the elephant comes from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Southern Classic of the Sea, and it is also an allusion story recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

At the beginning, the woodcutter saved a little white snake, and in the later process of getting along, the little snake was treated as a pet, and then the little snake slowly grew up, and the woodcutter put the grown snake in the cave, and this friendship has been maintained, and he silently guarded the woodcutter's descendants. Later, the woodcutter's descendants wanted to gain wealth, and finally harmed themselves.

This allusion is in the Book of Mountains and Seas, which means that the snake can eat the snake, and after three years, it will spit out all the bones of the elephant, which can ** the disease in the stomach.

**In the Book of Mountains and Seas, it is because there was an animal named Ba Snake at that time, after eating the elephant, it would spit out all the bones of the elephant after three years, giving people a special **, vicious.

The allusion of the story of the human heart is stupid enough and the snake takes the forest and swallows the elephant as follows:

Allusion: The origin of "the heart is not enough to swallow the snake".

Many people know that the human heart is not enough to swallow the snake", and its meaning is also very clear, many books are printed as "the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant", and many people also think that "the human heart can never be satisfied, the greed is too heavy, just like a snake, want to swallow an elephant".

In fact, "people's hearts are not enough to swallow the snake" is an allusion, which is to the effect:

Once upon a time there was a very poor man who saved the life of a snake, and the snake repaid him for saving his life, so he asked the man to make a request to fulfill his wish. At first, this man only asked for simple food and clothing, and the snake fulfilled his wishes, but then slowly greed arose, and asked to be an official, and the snake also satisfied him. Until he became the prime minister, he was still not satisfied, and asked to be the emperor.

At this time, the snake finally understood that people's greed is endless, so they devoured this person in one bite.

So, the snake swallowed the prime minister, not the elephant. Therefore, the allusion of "people's hearts are not enough to swallow the snake" was left.

The human heart is not enough, and the snake swallows the elephant" is derived from the "snake swallowing the elephant" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, the South Classic of the Sea". The original meaning of "snake swallowing elephant" is to say that a big snake wants to devour an elephant, which is a metaphor for some people who are extremely greedy and do not measure their strength, and want to devour elephants like a big snake. "Ba snake" is a big snake.

The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant", that is, if people are greedy, they will inevitably be killed by their own arrogant selfish desires.

People also often use "people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants" to warn future generations that they should know how to restrain their desires, so as not to be ruined by their desires like a small snake swallowing an elephant.