Origin: Everything was made by Wu Ji. It is recorded that during the Warring States Period, a farmer in the State of Song saw a rabbit hit a stump and died. He put down his hoe and stood by the stump every day, hoping to get the killed rabbit again.

Interpretation: The original metaphor refers to the luck of trying to succeed without effort. Now it is also a metaphor for sticking to a narrow experience and not knowing how to change it.

Original text:

There were plowmen in the Song Dynasty. There was a plant in the field. When the rabbit touched the plant, its neck broke and it died. Stand by and watch because you released this plant, hoping to get the rabbit back. Rabbits can't be recovered, but as a small fruit of a song. Today, the people who want to go to the former dynasty are all guarding their factories and so on.