「叶公好龙」出自西汉刘向编写的《新序·杂事五》。原文里，这个故事是孔子的学生子张讲的：他去拜见鲁哀公，等了七天也没得到礼遇，临走前托人带话说，您说喜欢人才，其实就像叶公好龙。原文最后一句是：「是叶公非好龙也，好夫似龙而非龙者也。」意思是叶公并不是真的喜欢龙，他喜欢的只是那些像龙却不是龙的东西。

The idiom Lord Ye Loves Dragons comes from the chapter Miscellaneous Affairs 5 of the Xin Xu, compiled by Liu Xiang in the Western Han dynasty. In the original, the story is told by Zizhang, a student of Confucius. He went to see Duke Ai of Lu, waited seven days without being received properly, and before leaving sent a message saying that the duke claimed to love talented people, but was just like Lord Ye loving dragons. The original ends: Lord Ye did not love dragons; he loved things that looked like dragons but were not.

故事里的叶公，原型是春秋时期楚国的叶公子高，名叫沈诸梁，因为封地在叶邑（今天的河南省平顶山市叶县）而被称为叶公。历史上真实的叶公其实很有才干，还曾带人治水、平定叛乱。这个「叶」字古时读作 shè，所以老一辈人常说「shè 公好龙」；1985年公布的《普通话异读词审音表》把它统一定为 yè。叶县至今还保留着叶公的陵园。

Lord Ye in the story is based on Lord Ye Zigao of the state of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. His name was Shen Zhuliang, and he was called Lord Ye because his land was at Ye, today Ye County in Pingdingshan, Henan Province. The real Lord Ye was in fact a capable statesman who led water control works and put down a rebellion. In ancient times this character was read she, so older people often say she gong hao long, while the official pronunciation standard published in 1985 fixed the reading as ye. Ye County still keeps a memorial park for Lord Ye.

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