In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was an impatient farmer. He thought his rice shoots were growing too slowly, so he decided to help them by pulling them upward.
One evening, he returned home exhausted and told his family, "I helped the rice shoots grow taller today." Hearing this, his son rushed to the field, only to find all the plants had withered.
This idiom warns against spoiling things by being overly anxious for quick results and ignoring the natural order.