What does it mean to plant flowers with your heart but not with your heart?

It means: it took a lot of effort to plant flowers, fertilize and irrigate, but the flowers never bloomed and finally withered; And a willow tree that was broken at will was inserted in the ground at will, and no one has ever taken care of it. A few years later, it grew into a lush willow tree.

Source: Qing Zhou Tao Xi's "Zeng Xianwen": "If you have the heart to plant flowers, you can't open them."

Synonym: intentionally planting flowers does not open, unintentionally inserting willows into the shade; Plant flowers intentionally, but not unintentionally.

Synonym: Sometimes there must be something in life, and there is no need to force it in life; Iron shoes are nowhere to be found, and it is effortless to take them; Two flowers bloom and are painted inadvertently.

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You can't find a place to get it, but you don't have to work hard to get it:

Meaning: It is a metaphor that what is urgently needed took a lot of effort to find, but it was inadvertently obtained, which wrote the author's state of mind of relief.

Source: Song Xia Ding Yuan's "Jueju": "Going to Xianghu to observe the Taoist temple, turning into a thousands of books idiot. Iron shoes are nowhere to be found, and it is easy to take them. "

Visiting Taoist priests from Kongtong Mountain came to the edge of Hunan, and the more they read thousands of poems, the more stupid they felt. Poetic inspiration that can't be found in iron shoes can be obtained without much effort in practice.