2020-2020 Peace at last 煮豆燃豆萁 People burn the beanstalk to boil beans, 漉菽以為汁 filtering them to extract juice. 萁在釜下燃 The beanstalks were burnt under the cauldron, 豆在釜中泣 and the beans in the cauldron wailed: 本是同根生 "We were originally grown from the same root; 相煎何太急 Why should we hound each other to death with such impatience?" From the Quatrain of Seven Step