Once upon a time, in the state of Yan, there was a young man. He saw that the people in Handan, Zhao state, had very elegant walking postures and was extremely envious in his heart. He thought that his own way of walking was too ordinary, so he decided to go to Handan to learn how the people there walked.
The young man came to the main street in Handan. He saw people walking in various postures. Some people walked with light steps, as if they were dancing; some people walked with a steady posture, showing self - confidence. The young man began to imitate the first passer - by he saw, learning to walk with small quick steps like that person. But his original walking rhythm was disrupted, and he walked stumblingly.
The young man was not reconciled. He saw another person walking in a heroic manner, so he went to imitate this person again. He forgot the small quick steps he had imitated before and began to walk with big strides. But his body could not adapt well to this new walking style, and he almost fell after just a few steps.
In this way, the young man kept imitating different people's walking postures. As a result, he also forgot his original way of walking. In the end, not only did he fail to learn the elegant walking postures of the Handan people, but he even forgot how to walk himself. He could only crawl back to Yan state, and was ridiculed by many people along the way. This story tells us that blindly imitating others will not only fail to learn skills, but also lose the skills we originally had.
