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The original text and translation of "Encouraging Seedlings" are as follows:

There was a man in the Song Dynasty who bowed before his seedlings grew well. When he came back, he said, "I am sick today! Help Miao Miao! " His son hurried to see it, Miao was dying. The world can't afford to help seedlings, and there are few old people. Those who give up because they feel useless don't cultivate seedlings; Help the old and help the young. Inaction is useless and harmful.

There was a man in the state of Song who thought his seedlings were not tall, so he went to the fields to raise them one by one, panted and said to his family, "I'm really exhausted today! However, I finally let the seedlings grow taller at once! " His son ran to the field and saw that all the seedlings were dead.

Few people in the world don't make such mistakes. People who think it is useless to maintain crops and leave them alone are lazy people who only grow crops and don't weed; This is the kind of person who is willing to help the crops grow. Not only is it useless, it will also kill crops.

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The fable of "encouraging seedlings to grow" tells people that the development of objective things has its own growth law, and it is not enough to rely solely on good wishes and enthusiasm, otherwise its effect may be counterproductive. This idiom also tells people a concrete truth: "Haste makes waste", and everything should be done step by step, according to objective laws, not subjectively aggressive, aiming too high and living by fantasy.

The story satirizes those who don't follow the objective laws, but only seek speed to make things worse. The enlightenment it gives people is that everything has its own law of development. To do a good job, we must follow its natural laws, and no one can violate them. Parents' good intentions are really valuable, but we must talk about methods and teach students in accordance with their aptitude.