{"id":4497,"date":"2019-11-19T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/ba-miao-zhu-chang-ba2miao2zhu4zhang3\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:27:04","slug":"ba-miao-zhu-chang-ba2miao2zhu4zhang3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/ba-miao-zhu-chang-ba2miao2zhu4zhang3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u62d4\u82d7\u52a9\u957f-ba2miao2zhu4zhang3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal meaning of each character = uproot,pull\/draw out &ndash; young plant\/seedling &ndash; help &ndash; grow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image portrayed&nbsp; by this useful  idiom is of someone pulling at a seedling or small plant thinking it  will help it grow faster.&nbsp; This of course is ridiculous as it&rsquo;s o<em><\/em>nly  water, sunshine and time that causes a plant to grow.&nbsp; We cannot make a  plant grow faster by pulling at it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore this idiom is useful when  describing someone who tries to force something to go faster than it&rsquo;s  natural process.&nbsp; Something take time no matter what you do, there are  no short cuts and patience is needed.&nbsp; If you think someone is pushing  you too hard you could use this to tell that person to lay off, but o<em><\/em>nly  of course if there pressure or encouragement genuinely has no effect on  the result.&nbsp; If a teacher is telling you to do your homework or review  class material etc then the idiom doesn&rsquo;t apply because this idiom is  o<em><\/em>nly really applicable to situations wher the efforts of another  genuinely have no effect on the end result, and perhaps can do harm and  even hamper the result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This idiom can also be rendered as \u63e0\u82d7\u52a9\u957f &ndash;  ya4miao2zhu4zhang3 &ndash; wher the o<em><\/em>nly difference is the first character  &ldquo;ya4&Prime; which also means &ldquo;pull&rdquo;.&nbsp; However I am told that the above version  with &ldquo;ba2&Prime; is more common.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1986710647\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literal meaning of each character = uproot,pull\/draw out &ndash; young plant\/seedling &ndash; help &ndash; grow<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[1021],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-teacher"],"views":179,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}