People die for money, birds die for food(rén wèi cái sǐ，niǎo wèi shí)

People die for money, birds die for food

"People die for money, birds die for food" is an old saying. The original meaning is "people in pursuit of money, even life can not.". In order to fight for food, birds would rather lose their lives ", which is extended to mean that" when it is difficult to preserve their own lives, organisms will try their best to preserve them, even by any means. "

essential information

Pinyin: R é NW è IC á is ǐ, Ni ǎ ow è ISH í w á ng. It means to pursue money, not even life. origin: the bamboo shoots become bamboo because of the falling of the bamboo sheaths, and the fish turn into dragons when they rush around. I remember the young man riding a bamboo horse and seeing that he was a Pulsatilla again. Propriety and righteousness come from wealth, and thieves from poverty. all the stars in the sky bow to the north, and there is no water in the world that faces east. a gentleman is peaceful, and a man knows his destiny. Good advice goes against the ear and good medicine goes against the mouth. those who follow heaven survive, those who go against heaven die. People die for money, birds die for food. husband and wife get along well, Qin Se and Sheng Huang. if you have children, you will soon be poor; if you have no children, you will soon be rich. Good will live long and evil will die early. The refreshing food is mostly used as medicine. If you worry too much, you will suffer. Wealth must be shared, and poverty should not be considered in vain. painting water without wind, making waves in the air, embroidery is not fragrant. He was greedy for a bucket of rice and lost half a year's grain. If you fight for a foot, you lose a cubit. When the Dragon returns to the cave at night, the clouds are still wet, and the musk deer pass through the spring mountain. You can only measure people's short life. Why don't you look back and measure yourself.

allusion

A long time ago, two greedy guys went up to the mountain to burn charcoal. When they dug a charcoal kiln, they dug out a jar of treasure. Let's not mention their happiness. So one of them said, "go back and bring lunch. I'll stay here. Don't tell anyone about the treasure." The man readily agreed, so he went down the mountain to get lunch. It takes more than half an hour for those who go back to the kiln to come back. Therefore, the people who are guarding the kiln think that if this jar of treasure belongs to me, how nice it would be, but I have to take half of it. I'm not willing to go back! After greed, I thought: why don't I do this, then I will say that there is such an accident, and this jar of treasure will belong to me. Make up your mind and wait for the delivery man. In other words, the man who went down to the mountain to get the rice also had the idea of taking the treasure by himself. He thought about why he didn't put some poison in the rice and send the man away. He was very proud of his own treasure. Lunch is finally delivered. An unsuspecting kiln keeper ends his life with a hoe. He enjoys the meal with pride. Without a few mouthfuls, he falls to the ground. Alas! The rice is scattered all over the floor. A few birds flew by, stopped to eat, and died. An immortal passed by, saw the scene and sighed: people die for money, birds die for food!

A new interpretation of Proverbs

Many people are familiar with the saying "people die for money, birds die for food". At the mention of this sentence, we can immediately think of some corrupt officials who, for material enjoyment, did not hesitate to try the law, and finally ruined their bright future; and some criminals who ignored the existence of the law and carried out various illegal and criminal activities, and finally put themselves on the road of no return. This is to understand "people die for money and birds die for food" from the perspective of visible phenomenon. On a deeper level, the sentence "man dies for money and birds die for food" tells us a universal law: if human beings do not correctly face and deal with the relationship between man and things according to the law, they will bring all kinds of unexpected crises and disasters to themselves. Just as birds only see the existence of food in order to get food, but ignore the existence of various dangers. In this way, we can understand why the latter sentence of this sentence is set off by people's understandable "birds die for food", which is to warn people to pay attention to the importance of "people die for money", because violating it is at the cost of life.

Chinese PinYin : rén wèi cái sǐ，niǎo wèi shí