In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer who was impatient by nature. He thought his rice shoots（嫩枝） were growing too slowly, so he decided to help them by pulling them.
有個急性子的宋國人，日夜盼望稻田裡的稻子快些長大。可是，稻子是要慢慢長的，不能照他想的那樣長的那麼快。
One day at dusk, he went back home dog-tired and said to his family: "I helped the rice shoots grow today." Hearing this, his son hurried to the field, only to find that all the plants had withered（乾枯） .
有一天，他想出了一個妙計：下得田去，把每棵稻子都從土裡拔高了一些。 “好累啊!辛辛苦苦乾了一整天!不過，田裡的稻子倒是都長高好些了。”他的兒子聽說田裡的稻子長高了好些，連忙跑到田裡去看。可是，糟糕得很，田裡的稻苗的葉子，都開始枯萎了。
This idiom refers to spoiling things because of being over-anxious for results and ignoring the law of nature.
這則故事主要告誡人們：不尊重自然規律或忽視自然規律，過分的焦急，必然導致破壞事情的正常發展。
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