A game of drawing snakes
In the Kingdom of Chu in the Warring States
period of China, one person told all his employees that there is a bottle of wine
here, and you all can decide how to distribute this bottle of wine.
After all the people discussed together,
they found a fair way. All the people draw a snake.
The person who finishes the painting first
will get this bottle of wine.
At the beginning of the game, one of them
completed the painting at a rapid rate.
The man happily picked up the bottle of
wine.
The man held the bottle of wine in his left
hand and the paintbrush in his right hand and said triumphantly.
I'm really great. Let me add something to
make the snake I drew more beautiful.
Then he painted four feet for the snake in
his own painting.
At this time another person also finished
drawing a snake, he grabbed the wine.
The first person who finished the painting
said angrily and anxiously, why do you want to take my wine?
The second person who finished painting
told him that we agreed that the person who finished painting a snake first
could own the bottle of wine.
Have you ever seen a snake with four feet?
So you are not painting a snake, this bottle of wine should be given to me.
Everyone agrees with the second person who
finished painting.
This idiom is used as a metaphor for
redundant actions, destroying what was originally correct.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
do you have after listening to this story?
Have you ever experienced anything similar
to this first person who painted a snake? How can we remind ourselves not to
make the wrong decision because of pride?
Hope this story will give you some new
gains.
畫蛇添足
在中國的戰國時代的楚王國，有一個人對他手下的所有員工說，這邊有一瓶酒，你們大家可以決定如何分配這瓶酒。
所有人一起討論後找到一個公平的方法，所有的人各自畫一隻蛇。
最先完成畫的人，就可以得到這瓶酒。
比賽開始，其中有一個人用很快的速度完成了這張畫。
這個人開心的拿起這一瓶酒。
這個人左手拿著這瓶酒，右手握著畫筆，得意地說。
我真是棒，讓我再加點東西，讓我畫的蛇更漂亮。
然後他又在自己的畫上，替蛇畫上了四隻腳。
此時另一個人也完成了畫好一條蛇，他就把酒搶過去。
第一個畫完的人很生氣又很著急地說，為何你要搶走我的酒。
第二個畫完的人對他說，我們約定先畫完一隻蛇的人可以擁有這瓶酒。
你有看過蛇有四條腳的嗎?所以你畫的不是蛇，這瓶酒應該給我。
所有的人都認同第二個畫完的人的看法。
這句成語被用來比喻多餘的動作，破壞了原本正確的事情。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你有發生過類似這位第一個畫完蛇的人的經驗嗎?我們如何提醒自已不要因為驕傲作出錯誤的決定呢?
希望這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
