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An example of failure because of hesitation
"Warring States Policy Zhao Ce San": "Ping Yuanjun hesitated." "Biography of Zhou Shu He Ba Sheng": "Today I hesitate."

According to this story, China's Chinese characters were standardized by Confucius. His 3000 disciples are responsible for spreading standardized words to the people. Confucius wrote and scratched day and night, and every time he wrote an article, his disciples immediately spread it around. After three years and six months of hard work, Confucius didn't know how many words he had written. Some people say that there are three loads and six buckets of millet. He thought: The disciples have sent me so many words, so they will probably distinguish the pronunciation according to the font. So I picked up a pen, wrote down the words "cow" and "fish", put them together, and called out "fish, cow"-the disciples quickly took the words. But this time I wrote two words. Teacher Wang didn't say which is "cow" or "fish", which made the disciples confused. You pass it on to me and I'll pass it on to you. No one can make up his mind. It is difficult to ask Mr. Wang, so we have to recognize the word "fish" as "cow" and "cow" as "fish" in the order of Mr. Wang's pronunciation. I'm afraid I'm not sure. These two words spread to the people, and my disciples always said, "There is no way to decide."

Later, people described the situation of indecision as "indecision" "Indecision" is said to be based on the pronunciation of "cattle and fish are undecided"