Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be One's Own Ability (邯郸学步 han dan xue bu)
邯郸学步Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be One's Own Ability
Tradition has it that more than 2,ooo years ago, there lived a young man in the Shouling area of the State of Yan. As his name is not known , we just call him Shouling young man for convenience's sake.
He was extremely low in the self confidence. He was at a loss as to how to behave all the time.
His family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming, but he thought they were fond of poking their noses into his business and were unwilling to provide him with tuition fee. His relatives and neighbours sneered at him, saying that he would never be able to learn anything. As the days went by, he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did, for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.
One day,he met some people on the road who were chatting