Drawing legs on a snake. (Ruining something by overdoing it.)
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The snake is the 6th animal in the Chinese zodiac. The idiom 画蛇添足 (drawing legs on a snake) means to ruin something by adding unnecessary details — from a story where a man finished drawing a snake first but lost a contest by adding legs.
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The Legend of the White Snake (白蛇传) is one of China's four great folk legends — a love story between a white snake spirit and a human scholar.
