The dike of a thousand miles is destroyed by the ant nest(qiān lǐ zhī dī，huǐ yú yǐ xué)

The dike of a thousand miles is destroyed by the ant nest

The dyke of a thousand miles was destroyed by the ant nest Qi ā NL ǐ zh ī D ī, Hu ǐ y ú y ǐ Xu é.

Explanation: a small ant hole can destroy the long dike. It's a metaphor for not paying attention to small things can cause big trouble.

Source: Han Feizi Yu Lao: "the dike of a thousand feet is broken by the hole of the mole ant; the room of a hundred feet is burned by the smoke of a sudden gap."

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Han Feizi Yu Lao: "the dike of a thousand feet is broken by the hole of the mole ant; the room of a hundred feet is burned by the sudden gap."

story

One year, there was a village near the Bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent the Yellow River disaster, farmers built a towering levee. One day, an old farmer happened to find that the ant nest suddenly increased a lot. The farmer thought, will these ant nests affect the safety of the levee? He was going back to the village to report and met his son on the way. Old farmer's son listened to disapprove, said: so strong levee, still afraid of a few small ants? Laonong went to the fields together. That night, with the wind and rain, the water in the Yellow River surged up. The roaring water seeped out of the ant nest, then spurted, and finally the dike was broken and the people were flooded.

Idiom Philosophy

The dike of a thousand miles was destroyed by the ant nest. The dike of a thousand miles was unbreakable because the strong wind and waves could not move it. However, with the invasion of ants, the levee finally collapsed. A hundred year old giant tree can't be destroyed by lightning and landslides. It can be said that it is indomitable, but a small beetle can bite the bark and eat up the trunk. It is precisely because of these often overlooked ants and beetles that the seemingly unbreakable levees and giant trees become fragile. Therefore, the problem of details often becomes a fatal problem. We can't ignore the details of things. Once the small things are ignored, they will lead to the big ones and eventually lead to irreparable consequences.

Idiom information

The dike of a thousand feet is broken by the burrows of ants; the room of a hundred feet is burned by the smoke of a sudden gap. Han Fei's Han Feizi Yu Lao in the pre Qin period: the dike of a thousand li was destroyed in the ant nest, Qi ā NL ǐ zh ī D ī, Hu ǐ y ú y ǐ Xu é . Ant's Nest: an ant's cave. It refers to a very long dyke. It will be destroyed in the end because of the bite of small ants and insects. Don't look down upon your mistakes. The accumulation of small mistakes will destroy your life. Ignoring small mistakes may lead to the accumulation of mistakes. We should be more careful about the unimportant things when the dike of a thousand miles was destroyed in the ant nest. [structure] subject predicate type [time] ancient times [Tongyun CI] fishing for the moon in the sea, leaking in the spring, all the year round, courage of the liver and the Qin and Yue, deep thinking and far sighted strategy, comfortable in both literature and theory, icy autumn moon, greedy for rats and wolves, metabolism, praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow sparrows, success and failure, freezing three feet is not a day's cold

Chinese PinYin : qiān lǐ zhī dī，huǐ yú yǐ xué