Getting better means that the lower end of the sugar cane is sweeter than the upper end. From top to bottom, the more you eat, the sweeter it gets.
Gradually getting better (Pinyin: jiàn rù jiā jìng) is an idiom derived from historical stories. The earliest allusions to the idiom come from "The Biography of Gu Kai in the Book of Jin" by Fang Xuanling and others of the Tang Dynasty. The original meaning of "gradually getting better" is that the lower end of the sugarcane is sweeter than the upper end. From top to bottom, the more you eat, the sweeter it becomes. It later refers to the gradual improvement of the situation or the gradual strengthening of interest. It can serve as a predicate and adverbial in a sentence; it is also called "gradually getting better".
Idiom Story Gu Kaizhi was a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and a native of Wuxi, Jinling. He is versatile, good at poetry, calligraphy, and is especially proficient in painting. When he was young, he once served as the great Sima Huanwen and joined the army. At that time, the local separatism in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was very serious. Each force supported its own troops and did not obey the instructions of the central government. Huan Wen advocated national unity and often led troops to attack those separatist forces.
Gu Kaizhi followed Huan Wen in his expeditions to the north and south for many years, and was highly valued by Huan Wen, and the two formed a deep friendship. Once, Gu Kaizhi accompanied Huan Wen by boat to Jiangling to inspect the troops. On the second day after arriving in Jiangling, officials from Jiangling came to see him and brought many bundles of local specialty sugar cane. Huan Wen was very happy to see it and ordered everyone to taste it together.
So everyone took it and ate it, praising the sweetness of the sugar cane. At this time, Gu Kaizhi was immersed in admiring the beautiful scenery alone and did not have time to get the sugar cane. Huan Wen saw it and wanted to make a joke with Gu Kaizhi. He deliberately picked a long sugar cane, walked up to Gu Kaizhi, and thrust the end of the sugar cane into his hand.
Gu Kaizhi started to chew without even looking at it. Huan Wen deliberately asked Gu Kaizhi if the sugar cane was sweet, and the people next to him also laughed and asked him. When Gu Kaizhi came back to his senses, he saw that he was chewing the end of the sugar cane, and he knew why everyone was laughing. In order to ease the embarrassing situation, he had an idea and then started talking: What are you laughing at? When eating sugar cane, you should start from the end.
The meaning of the idiom "getting better gradually":
When Gu Kaizhi eats sugar cane, he always starts from the top of the sugar cane, eats down one bite at a time, and finally eats the sweetest root. He calls this way of eating getting better. In fact, this also gives people a revelation that learning must be down-to-earth and one step at a time. As long as you persevere, you will eventually gain something.
On the other hand, the willingness and patience to be in a winning situation is also an experience that everyone should undergo in the impetuous trend. In today's society, efficiency is emphasized in everything. However, not everything must be done in one step. If we blindly pursue efficiency, it may lead to "the carrot is too fast and the mud is not washed away."
In addition, as this trend grows, it also indirectly causes some young people to have high ambitions and low abilities. When applying for positions, they only want to choose high positions and do not choose positions based on their actual abilities; when doing business, they always want to become fat in one bite. As a result I borrowed money here and there, spent a lot of money on it, but lost all my money, so I had no choice but to hide here and there. Just as gradualness also means submersion, people should try to calm down and slowly practice the patience of waiting.