The story of Shang Zhouwang's ivory chopsticks is Worry about Elephant Chopsticks, which comes from the fable of Han Feizi's Twenty-one Old Man in the Warring States Period. In the past, people were afraid of elephant chopsticks, but Ji Zi was afraid.

The story goes like this:

When Zhou Wang used ivory chopsticks, Ji Zi was afraid. Because Ji Zi thinks that if ivory chopsticks are used, cups made of rhinoceros horns must be used instead of pottery cups; With ivory chopsticks and jade cups, you will not eat coarse grains and vegetables, but eat delicacies; Delicacies and seafood must not be eaten in coarse cloth in the thatched cottage, but must be eaten in a spacious room and on a high pavilion.

Five years later, Zhou Wang set up a wine pool and a meat forest, set up a brand of torture, and died. So when Ji Zi saw ivory chopsticks, he knew that there would be a catastrophe in the world. Therefore, "people who can see the future development from a small place can be called smart."

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"Once upon a time Ji Zi was afraid to be an elephant" shows Ji Zi's character of seeing the big from the small (or: seeing the big from the small); "I am afraid of his death, so I am afraid of his beginning" shows Kiko's prescient character.

This fable, through the story of Ji Zi using ivory chopsticks in Zhou Wang and worrying about his loss of control and even the death of Shang Zhouwang, reveals a profound truth and has strong foresight.

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