The Chu people discovered the valuable Mulan, and invited skilled craftsmen to make a box (that is, a bamboo raft) for the pearl, and smoked the box with cinnamon spice. Then, on the outside of the box, many beautiful patterns were carved and inlaid with beautiful metal lace. It looks shiny. It's really a delicate and beautiful handicraft. In this way, the Chu people carefully put pearls into boxes and took them to the market to sell. ?
Soon after arriving at the market, many people gathered around to admire the Chu people's boxes. A Zheng people hold the box in their hands and can't put it down for a long time. Finally, he paid a high price for the Chu people's box. Zheng paid the money and came back with a box. But he came back after a few steps. The Chu people thought that Zheng people regretted returning the goods. Before the Chu people could finish thinking, Zheng people had come to the Chu people. I saw Zheng Ren take pearls out of the open box and give them to him?
The Chu people said, "Sir, you left a pearl in the box, and I came back to return it to you." So Zheng gave the pearl to the Chu people, then looked down at the wooden box and went back. ?
The Chu people stood there awkwardly with the returned pearls. He thought others would appreciate his pearls, but he didn't expect the exquisite outer packaging to exceed the value in the box, so that "a presumptuous guest usurps the host's role" made the Chu people laugh and cry. ?
This is a fable, which means that when people deal with things, they are attracted by the false and gorgeous appearance and ignore their own value. ?
Zheng only stared at the beautiful box, but lost the really valuable pearl. It can be seen that everything must have priorities, otherwise it will be like the Zheng people who "buy gifts and return pearls" to make stupid things such as giving up the basics and making improper choices.
In modern times, it is also used as a metaphor to spend a little capital to get a higher return, and the seller gets a "pearl" with a rafter.
Describe people who are short-sighted and make improper choices.