One-foot hammer is an ancient idiom, which originated from China's ancient Taoist thought. The hammer of one foot represents a unit of length, and one foot is an ancient unit of length, which is equivalent to about one meter in modern times. A hammer is a tool used to beat an object to change its shape or break it.
But a foot-long hammer hitting an object is not strong enough to achieve the expected effect, which may make things worse. This tells us that when doing things, we should choose the right tools and methods to achieve the expected results.
A hammer with one foot can also be understood as a symbol, representing people's way of thinking and behavior. The way people think and behave, like a foot-long hammer, has its limitations. If we can't use this limitation correctly, we can't solve the problem in an appropriate way of thinking.
Then, just like a foot-long hammer can't hit a hard object, our efforts may backfire and make things worse. This requires us to choose the appropriate way of thinking and methods when dealing with problems, in order to achieve the expected results.
The idiom "one-foot hammer" tells us that when dealing with problems, we should choose the right tools and methods and solve them in the right way of thinking, so as to achieve the expected effect, otherwise it will only make things worse like a one-foot hammer hitting a hard object.
The history of the idiom "a hammer with one foot";
The idiom "one-footed hammer" comes from China's ancient Taoist classic Tao Te Ching. Tao Te Ching is the main work of Laozi, the founder of Taoist school in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is known as the first Taoist classic. This book is divided into two parts.
That is, Tao Jing and Dejing, ***8 1 chapter, about 5000 words. There is a famous saying in the thirtieth chapter of the Tao Te Ching: My words are easy to know and I do it. There is nothing to know and nothing to do in the world. The hammer with one foot here is the fable of this chapter.
The story is about a young man named Shi, who knocked a big stone with a one-foot hammer. However, because the hammer is too short and the stone is too big, the stone can't be broken no matter how hard it is hit. Finally, Shi had to give up and return empty-handed.
The moral of the story "Tao Te Ching" is that we should pay attention to methods, adjust measures to local conditions, and don't be blind and reckless. In real life, we can extend this story to: Sometimes, people may blindly invest a lot of energy and time in pursuit of a certain goal.
However, due to improper methods, it will get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, in the process of pursuing our goals, we need to constantly adjust our methods and strategies to find the most suitable way to achieve our goals.