{"id":12123,"date":"2019-11-19T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/a-chinese-idiom-about-snake-feet-hua-she-tian-zu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:42:27","slug":"a-chinese-idiom-about-snake-feet-hua-she-tian-zu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/a-chinese-idiom-about-snake-feet-hua-she-tian-zu\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Idiom about Snake Feet \u753b\u86c7\u6dfb\u8db3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u753b\u86c7\u6dfb\u8db3\u3010hu&agrave; sh&eacute; ti\u0101n z&uacute; \u3011<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  Adding feet to a drawing of a snake<\/p>\n<p>  :: to ruin the effect of something by adding something superfluous. ::<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash;&mdash;&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>  An official in the ancient State of Chu gave a pot of wine to his men to celebrate the Spring Sacrifice ceremony. One of the men said: &ldquo;We have o<em><\/em>nly one pot of wine, and it&rsquo;s o<em><\/em>nly enough for one. So, let&rsquo;s play for it. The first one to finish drawing a snake in the ground wins the pot of wine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  The others agreed and started drawing their snakes in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>  Then, there was a winner, or so he thought. He had finished his drawing and reached for the pot of wine. But, when he saw that the others hadn&rsquo;t finished their drawings, he arrogantly said to them: &ldquo;How slow you are! The way you&rsquo;re going, I can add feet to my snake and still win the pot of wine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  So, he did. He added feet to his snake. But before he could finish, another man grabbed the pot of wine and said: &ldquo;What snake has feet? That&rsquo;s not a snake! So, I win!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  The moral of the story is that sometimes going too far can be as bad, or worse, than not going far enough.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2748233778\"><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>\u753b\u86c7\u6dfb\u8db3\u3010hu&agrave; sh&eacute; ti\u0101n z&uacute; \u3011 &nbsp; Adding feet to a drawing of a snake :: to ruin the effect of<\/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":[4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-12123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":207,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}