"The snake swallows the elephant in a lack of human heart" turns out to tell this story, which increases knowledge!
"The snake swallows the elephant in a person's heart" is a metaphor for a person who is greedy and will be harmed by his own desires. Originally evolved from the allusion of "Ba Snake Swallows Elephant" in "Shan Hai Jing", but people believe more of this legend:
During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, a family of mothers and sons in Shenze were two. The mother was old and sick. The son was called Wang Wang. He was in his thirties and did not seek a wife. He made a living by selling firewood.
One day, Wang Wang went to the north of the village to collect firewood and found a seven-inch-long flower-spotted snake in the grass. He was covered in wounds and could not move. Wang Wang felt compassion and rinsed and applied medicine to him. After a while, the snake woke up and nodded at Wang Wang to express his gratitude. So Wang Wang took it home.
From then on, the mother and son took care of themselves carefully, the snake's wounds gradually healed, and the snake grew up, and it always seemed like they wanted to talk to them. The mother and son's monotonous and lonely life added a lot of fun. Days passed day by day, Wang Wang still chopped wood, his mother still kept her home, and the little snake stayed at home all day long.
Suddenly one day, the little snake felt bored and crawled into the yard to bask in the sun. The little snake became thick and long after being shined by the sun. When my mother saw this, she fainted and screamed. When Wang Wang came back, the snake had returned to the house and returned to its original form. She said anxiously: "I lost my mind today and scared my mother to death. But don't be afraid. You should quickly remove three small pieces of skin from me, make some weeds, put them in the pot and make soup, so that my mother will be fine if she drinks it."
Wang Wang said: "No, it will hurt your body, so I'd better think of another way!"
The flower-spotted snake urged her several times, and Wang Wang had to do so with tears.
After the mother drank the soup, she woke up quickly, and the mother and son were both grateful and puzzled. Wang Wang recalled the situation of golden light emitting in the snake basket every night, and felt that this snake was extraordinary.
Speaking of the saying that Song Renzong ignored the government affairs all day long, and his life in the palace day after day, he felt bored and wanted to have a night pearl to play with, so he posted a notice. Whoever could offer one would be awarded an official and rewarded.
This incident reached Wang Wang's ears. When he went home and told the snake, he pondered for a while and said, "You have been very good to me in the past few years and have life-saving grace. I always want to repay you, but I have never had a chance. Now I can finally do something for you. To be honest, my eyes are two night pearls. If you dig out one of my eyes and give it to the emperor, you can get promoted and make a fortune, and my mother can spend her old age in peace."
Wang Wang was very happy after hearing this, but after all, he had a relationship with the snake and couldn't bear to start.
Originale said: "NoIt's important, I can withstand it. ”
Wang Wang dug out one of the big snake's eyes and turned into a rare night pearl, so he presented the pearl to the emperor. The civil and military officials of the court had never seen such a strange pearl before, and they praised it endlessly. The emperor was also very happy and appointed the king as a high-ranking official and rewarded him with a lot of gold, silver and treasures.
The Empress of the West Palace also wanted one when she saw her. As a last resort, Song Renzong ordered the search for the jewel and promised that the second person who presented the treasure could become the prime minister.
Wang Wang imagined that I would bring the snake's second eye to present it. Isn't the Prime Minister mine? So Wang Wang talked to the big snake again.
Due to love, the snake turned the remaining eye into a pearl and gave it to Wang Wang, so Wang Wang became the prime minister as he wished.
A coincidence, the princess who was in her prime at that time also suffered from a strange disease. The imperial doctors in the palace were unable to help. It is said that the liver of a python was needed for 4,000 or 2,000 years to survive. It was difficult to find a question, so the emperor issued an edict to post a list of emperors across the country, saying that if anyone could cure the princess's illness, he would be appointed as the princess and be granted the title of king.
At this time, Wang Wang, as the prime minister, had been blinded by the interests and directly found the snake and told the whole story. The snake with blind eyes heard it and said with tears of grief after hearing it, "Have you ever thought that if I give you my liver, I will lose my life?"
"But I saved your life," Prime Minister Wang Wang continued to beg: "You should repay me."
After hearing this, the big snake sighed, "Okay, I will open my mouth later, you can crawl from my mouth to my stomach and get it yourself!"
When Wang Wang took the butcher knife into the big snake's mouth, the big snake suddenly closed its mouth, but Prime Minister Wang Wang never came out again...
The prime minister was lost in the dynasty, and people searched for it every time, but disappeared. In the end, the family judged that it might have been swallowed by the snake. The allusion to persuade the world that "the human heart is not enough" has spread.
After that, people spread rumors and mistakenly wrote the prime minister's "master" as the "elephant" of an elephant, so "the snake swallowed the elephant" has been passed down to this day.
This story tells us: Nothing is greater than being dissatisfied, and no more blame is greater than wanting to get. Therefore, the content is always content. There is no greater sin than indulging in desires, no greater disaster than insatiable disaster than insatiable; there is no greater mistake than insatiable mistakes or insatiable mistakes. Therefore, those who know satisfaction will always feel satisfied and happy. People are unhappy, and they often want too much because they ignore having. When the sun comes out, don’t complain about the tanning skin; when the sun sets, don’t blame the inability to see clearly. Keep your heart straight and smooth sailing; keep your heart calm and calm. There is no perfection in the world. I have been open-minded, figured out, contented, and less desire, justPerfect.
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