in the spring and autumn period, there was a farmer who was impatient by nature. he thought his rice shoots（嫩枝） were growing too slowly, so he decided1 to * them by pulling them.
one day at dusk, he went back home dog-tired and said to his family: "i *ed the rice shoots grow today." hearing this, his son hurried to the field, only to find that all the plants had withered2（干枯） .
this idiom refers to spoiling things because of being over-anxious for results and ignoring the law of nature.
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