Snipers and mussels compete (pinyin: yù bàng xiāng zhēng). The struggle between snipe and mussel is a historical fable, and it is a provincial language of "the snipe and mussel struggle, and the fisherman gains", which comes from the Warring States Policy Yance II written by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty.

The fable story of the struggle between snipe and clam is as follows: Zhao cut down the swallow, and Su said to Hui Wang on behalf of the swallow: "Today, I am a minister, and I have crossed Yishui. When the clam is exposed, the snipe pecks at its meat, and the clam closes and clamps its beak. The snipe said,' If it doesn't rain today, there will be dead mussels tomorrow!' The clam is also called the snipe, saying,' If you don't come out today or tomorrow, there will be a dead snipe!'

If the two refuse to give up, the fisherman will get the bird. Today, Zhao is cutting Yan, and Yan and Zhao have been supporting each other for a long time, so as to harm the public, and I am afraid that Qiang Qin will be a fisherman. Therefore, I hope that the king will be familiar with it! "King Hui said," Good. " It's a stop. (Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang, Warring States Policy, Yance II). Later generations derived from this fable the idiom "the snipe and the clam strive for each other", which is often used together with "the fisherman gains".

The fable of fighting between snipes and mussels tells people: when doing things, you should not be impulsive. Before doing things, you should consider the gains and losses and think carefully. You should not only think about the one thing that is beneficial to you, but also give in to each other and take a step back. Especially in all kinds of chaotic and complicated contradictions and struggles, if the opposing sides can't fight, the result will be both losses and the third party will reap the benefits.

When you encounter tangled and unpleasant things at ordinary times, don't care too much about whether you have taken advantage or suffered losses, because this will make you fall into a wrong thinking, which will lead to endless quarrels and stalemate between the two sides. In the end, it will only let others take advantage of it, which will damage the interests of yourself and the other side and lead to the loss for both sides.