“Haste makes waste”: live online Chinese class for minutes

It was a winter during the early Qing dynasty, the Shunzhi years. A scholar on his way to a town with his livehand(a boy serving in a scholar’s study) whom many books on his back. It was dusk when they got down out of a ferry. They asked the ferryman that “Can we arrive to the town before the gate of town has been shut?” The ferryman replied that “The gate will open if you walk slowly, or close if you walk urgently.” When the scholar heard that, he was angry. He thought the ferryman is teasing him. Thereupon, he and his livehand walked urgently until the rope tied books have broken. He and his livehand had to tidy books and rope it again so that they were late when they reached the front of the gate. At that time, the scholar began to realize the words of the ferryman(wonderful story from ib 中文老师).

From this story we can see something different from common things, there is an idiom include similar meaning from ancient China named “欲yu4速su4不bu4达da2”. “欲yu4” refer to “want”. “速su4” refer to “speed”. Even if you just take live online Chinese class for minutes you may know what does “不bu4” means. Yeah, it means “no” “达da2” means “achieve”. So “欲yu4速su4不bu4达da2” is similar to “Haste makes waste”.

Nowadays vanity became the most prominent character of many people gradually. With the development of social media, the superior became love to show their advantage to more people, poor people love to discuss the superior’s life as if his own life all the day, the struggling people want to reach the level of superior more faster so that do something harmful. Just like < seven habits of highly effective people> said, “People all focus on how to crash rather than improve themselves”

In my opinion, hard working step by step is the shortcut to everywhere. When you are learning Chinese, whether take online IB Chinese course or Learn mandarin online live from Beijing, you should accumulate Chinese language knowledge gradually, use it to anywhere in your power, and you’ll master this mystical language.

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