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Kua Fu's race with the sun. According to an ancient myth in Book of Mountains and Seas, Northern Lands Beyond the Sea, a man called Kua Fu, feeling extremely thirsty from chasing after the sun, drank up all the water in the Yellow and Weihe rivers, but that was still not enough. He travelled elsewhere seeking water but died from thirst midway. The stick he left later turned into a wood, called Deng Wood. Now people use this phrase as a metaphor for a person with a strong will or who overestimate

kuā fù zhuī rì

夸 父 追 日

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slKua Fu's race with the sun. According to an ancient myth in Book of Mountains and Seas, Northern Lands Beyond the Sea, a man called Kua Fu, feeling extremely thirsty from chasing after the sun, drank up all the water in the Yellow and Weihe rivers, but that was still not enough. He travelled elsewhere seeking water but died from thirst midway. The stick he left later turned into a wood, called Deng Wood. Now people use this phrase as a metaphor for a person with a strong will or who overestimate
- ruò zhí zhuó wú cháng zhī wù zhǐ huì tú zēng fán nǎo hǎo bǐ kuā fù zhuī rì zhǐ huì bǎ zì jǐ lèi sǐ zài lù shang
  若执着无常之物，只会徒增烦恼，好比夸父追日，只会把自己累死在路上。
  If you stick to impermanent things, you will only increase your worries. Just like Kua Fu's race with the sun, you will only tire yourself to death on the road.
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kuā fù zhú rì夸父逐日

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