Drinking a dove to quench thirst is a metaphor for using the wrong way to solve immediate difficulties regardless of the serious consequences. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is a poisonous bird in ancient China, and it can poison people if it drinks wine soaked in its feathers. It is like a person who drinks a donkey in order to quench his thirst, so that the food has not yet entered the stomach and the person has already lost his breath as soon as it reaches the throat, and the latter metaphor only seeks relief from the present predicament without regard to future calamities, or only sees immediate benefits without regard to serious consequences. However, when there is the same problem, I think that drinking doves is not as good as looking at plums to quench thirst, and the same solution to the problem has the same effect.

The story of Wangmei quenching thirst takes place in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao led his troops to attack Wancheng to conquer Zhang Xiu, and he walked very hard all the way. It was the height of summer, and the sun was shining so hot that the earth seemed to be scorched. Cao Cao's army had been on the road for many days, and the soldiers were very tired. And all along the way are barren mountains and bald mountains, there are no people, and there is no water source within a radius of dozens of miles. The soldiers tried their best, but they couldn't get a drop of water to drink. The sun was blazing overhead, and the soldiers were dizzy from the sun, but they couldn't find water to drink, and everyone's mouths were dry, and many of them had chapped lips so much that blood flowed. And every few miles walked, people continued to collapse and die of heat stroke, and even the strong soldiers gradually became unable to support themselves. And Cao Cao was very anxious when he saw such a scene. He rode his horse to a nearby mountain range, and looked far away from the top of the mountain, trying to find a place with water. But he was disappointed to find that the cracked land was endless, and when he looked back at the soldiers, one by one they were staggered, and they had long been thirsty and could not stand it, and it seemed that it would be difficult to go far. Cao Cao was a smart man, and he thought in his heart: This is a terrible situation, he can't find water, and if he continues to consume it like this, not only will the fighter plane be delayed, but there will also be a lot of men and horses to lose here, what way to think of to boost morale and encourage everyone to get out of the arid zone? Cao Cao thought about it again and again, and suddenly had an idea. He was on the hill, drew out his command flag and pointed forward, and shouted loudly: There is a large plum forest not far ahead, full of big, sour, and sweet plums, everyone hold on a little longer, and you can quench your thirst by going there and eating plums! After listening to Cao Cao's words, the soldiers remembered the sour taste of plums, as if they had really eaten plums, and a lot of saliva suddenly appeared in their mouths, and their spirits also cheered up, and they mustered up all their strength to hurry forward. In this way, Cao Cao finally led his army to a place where there was water. Finally rushed to Wancheng, Zhang Xiu went out of the city and surrendered in a battle, and Cao Cao won the victory.

Cao Cao took advantage of the soldier's conditioned reflex to the sour taste of plums, thus successfully overcoming the difficulty of thirst. It shows that when Cao Cao encountered difficulties, he first kept calm and did not mess up, and always used his desire for success to motivate himself, and used wisdom to inspire the soldiers, and finally achieved great success. And this is also closely related to real life. Many people only see the immediate benefits and do not think about the long-term, like drinking doves to quench their thirst. Maybe it's a temporary success now, but I'm sure you'll be like a big boat on the river, and the waterway gets narrower and narrower until it reaches the creek, and finally there is no way out.