The ancients used wisdom to combine idioms with proverbs or poems to form proverb culture, which contains a lot of truth and knowledge. In life, some people think that it is not too late to mend. It means it's not too late to mend, but there are still more people who think that it's better to mend, and use this idiom when it's irreparable.
The origin and allusions of common sayings
The origin of the idiom "Better late than never" The Western Han Dynasty Liu Xiang "Warring States Policy" "It's too late to mend; It's not too late to mend. " It's not too late to look back at the dog after seeing the rabbit. It's never too late to mend.
This article tells the story of Chu State in the Warring States Period. There was a minister named Zhuang Xin. Seeing that King Xiang of Chu ignored state affairs and only cared about pleasure all day long, he resigned from his office after many unsuccessful exhortations. Later, Xiang Wang was forced into exile. He remembered Zhuang Xin's words and sent someone to get him back and asked him how to remedy it.
Zhuang Xin said sincerely, "I've heard that it's not too late to remember to look for hounds until you see rabbits;" It's not too late for the sheep to run to mend the sheepfold. I used to hear that the king of Tang and the king of Wu were only a hundred miles at first, but later they all made their fortune by governing the country with their hearts. Although Jie Wang won the world, he was inevitably destroyed by abandoning politics. "
Hearing this, Wang Xiang cheered up again. With the help of Zhuang Xin, he finally regained the land taken away by Chu.