葉公好龍(劉向《新序·雜事》)Lord Ye’s love of dragons—a legendary story about Lord Ye who professed to love dragons so much that he had his utensils and beams of his house all carved with dragons.The real dragon learned about this and wanted to call on him. But no sooner had the real dragon popped its head in through the window than Lord Ye was scared out of his wits and fled the house; professed love of what one does not really understand or even fears (Liu Xiang) |