[Explanation]: The metaphor violates the objective law of the development of things, and is in a hurry, but it is a bad thing.

【Idiom Story】:

The idiom plucking the seedlings helps them grow. The metaphor ignores the laws of development of things and forces quick results, but instead makes things worse.

This idiom is derived from Mencius. Gongsun Choushang", the Song people have Min Qimiao's not long and squeezed the person, Mangran returned, saying that his people said: Today's illness! Help the seedlings grow! His son tends to look at it, and the seedling is stubborn.

Mencius is a Confucian classic that records the political activities, political doctrines, and philosophical and ethical education ideas of Meng Ke, a famous thinker during the Warring States period. There is a very famous story in this book: there was a farmer in the Song Kingdom, who was worried that the seedlings in his field would not grow tall, so he went to the edge of the field every day to see them.

However, for one day, two days, three days, the seedlings did not seem to grow at all. He walked anxiously around the edge of the field and said to himself, "I have to find a way to help them grow."

One day, he finally came up with a solution, and hurried to the field, plucking the seedlings one by one, and was busy from morning until the sun went down, and he was exhausted.

When he returned home, he was very tired and panting and said: I am tired today, but my strength is not in vain, and I have helped the seedlings grow a lot taller.

When his son heard this, he hurried into the field and saw that all the seedlings were dead.

Meng Ke used this story to show his students that subjectively impatient and reckless against the objective laws of the development of things would make things worse.

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