Chinese idiom – 守株待兔 shǒu zhū dài tù

The story of “Waiting for a Hare by the Stump” translates to:

Once upon a time, there was a farmer in the State of Song. One day, while he was working in his fields, he saw a hare run by and crash into a tree stump, breaking its neck and dying instantly. The farmer, seeing this easy chance, decided to give up farming and wait by the tree stump every day, hoping to have the same lucky break. However, no more hares ever came to crash into the tree stump, and the farmer’s fields went unplanted and untended. He ended up starving to death.

This story serves as a metaphor for relying solely on chance or waiting idly for things to happen without taking action or initiative.