fools grow without watering

fools grow without watering

Rotten wood is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Xi ǔ m ù B ù di ā o, which means that rotten wood cannot be carved. It refers to people who are not progressive and cannot be cultivated. Also known as "rotten wood and dirt", it means that people have been rotten to the point of incurable. From the Analects of Confucius gongyechang.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: rotten wood can't be carved, rotten wood can't be carved

The origin of Idioms

Confucius in the pre Qin period wrote in the Analects of Confucius gongyechang: "you can't carve rotten wood, you can't build walls of dung."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, object; derogatory

Idiom story

Zai Yu, a disciple of Confucius, has beautiful words and pleasant speech. At first, Confucius liked this disciple very much and thought that he must be very promising. But soon zaizi revealed his laziness. One day, Confucius gave a lecture to his disciples. When he found that Zai Yu had not come to the lecture, he sent his disciples to look for him. After a while, the disciples came back and reported that Zai Yu was sleeping in his room. Confucius listened to the sad, he said: "rotten wood can not be carved, walls like dirt can not be painted. At first, when I heard what others said, I believed that his behavior must be the same as what he said. Now, after listening to what others said, I want to examine his behavior. I've changed my attitude since I killed my son. "