Look for the best

Look for the best

It's a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ji à NLU à nqi ú J à, which means that when you see an egg, you want to turn it into a chicken. It's too early to tell the truth. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.

When you see an egg, you expect it to turn into a chicken, and then you come to the morning to announce the dawn. The metaphor is premature.

Source: Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun: "the female also plans early. She asks for the time and night when she sees the egg, and the owl when she sees the bullet."

[example] today's apprentices say that the sage is virtuous, but they don't know why the sage is virtuous. It can be said that when you see the egg, you ask for the time and night, and when you see the bullet, you ask for the owl to cook. The seven signatures of the cloud collection on sitting and forgetting by Zhang Junfang in Song Dynasty

allusion:

Once upon a time, there was a teacher named Chang Wuzi and a student named Qu quezi. Qu quezi once heard of Confucius' speech on the sage's attitude towards life. He asked Chang Wuzi, "when I was chatting with Confucius, there was a saying that sage didn't engage in trivial affairs, didn't pursue personal interests, didn't avoid disasters, didn't like greed, and didn't seek the reason of Tao. He didn't say anything as if he had said something, said something as if he didn't say anything, so he wandered outside the secular world. Confucius thinks that these are rash and improper remarks, but I think they are the practice and embodiment of the subtle way. What do you think, sir? "

Chang Wuzi replied, "the real truth is not easy to understand. How can Confucius understand sages? What's more, you're too eager. After listening to Meng Lang's words, you think it's a wonderful way and you're going to use it? It's like a rooster who wants to get the dawn at the sight of an egg, and a turtle dove who wants to get the roasted meat at the sight of a billiard. It's too hasty! "