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 Carelessness Chinese language

 

There is an interesting story laying behind Chinese characters like other languages, such as ma hu.A painter drew an animal which looked like a horse and a tiger.He told his first son that it was a tiger.The older son identified a horse as a tiger and killed it.

He told his second son it was a horse.The younger boy identified a tiger as a horse and try to ride on it.Therefore, his first son owed a horse to its master and his second son came within an inch of death.From then on, ma hu has been used to describe carelessness.