à i w ū j í w ū 乌：乌鸦。 Shangshu Dazhuan - The Great War: "He who loves a person loves both the crows on his house." It means to love a person and the crows on his house. Later, it was used as a metaphor to describe the person who loves a person and loves the people or things related to that person.
yāng jí chí yúOnce upon a time, there was a place where there was a pond under the city gate, and a group of fish swam happily in it. Suddenly, the city gate caught fire, and when one fish saw it, he exclaimed, "No good, the city gate is on fire, run away!" But the other fish were not impressed, thinking that the city gate was on fire and that it was far away from the pond, so there was no need to make a fuss about it. None of the other fish fled except that one. At this time, people came to the pond with water-filled things to get water to put out the fire. After a while, the fire was extinguished, and the pond was drained of water, and all the fish in the pond suffered. This story tells us: fire - water - fish is connected, the pond water can put out the fire of the city gate, which is a direct link, the fish and the city gate fire is an indirect link, it is through the water of the pond this intermediate link and the connection. Metaphorically speaking, it is a disaster for no reason. 2、It refers to idioms with allusive sources, excluding idioms without allusive sources.
Dong Shi xiao knits her brows
Source: "Zhuangzi - Tian Yun": "Therefore, Xi Shi is sick and knits her brows, and the ugly people in her brows see her beauty, and return to hold her brows and knit her brows. When the rich people in her neighborhood saw her, they closed their doors and did not go out; when the poor people saw her, they took their wives and went away."
Preventing the slightest step
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12/31/2003/13:59 huaxiajingwei.com
Explanation: To prevent bad things from developing when they first appear.
This idiom comes from "Hou Han Shu. Ding Hong biography ", if the edicts of the government responsible for the body, to prevent the gradual prevention of bud, then the evil demon pinned down, the harm removed Fukubin carry on.
After the reign of Emperor He Di of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Empress Dowager Dou was in power. Her brother, Dou Xian, general, appointed Dou brothers for the civil and military officials, holding the country's military and political power. Seeing this phenomenon, many ministers were anxious and sweated for the Han dynasty. Minister Ding Hong was one of them.
Ding Hong was very learned and extremely knowledgeable about the scriptures. He was very angry at the dictatorship of Empress Dowager Dou, and was determined to get rid of this scourge for his country. A few years later, the sky eclipsed, Ding Hong took this then considered ominous signs, wrote to the emperor, pointing out that the power of the Dou family for the country's harm, suggesting that quickly change this phenomenon. Emperor He had already felt and intended to do so, so he quickly dismissed Dou Xian, and Dou Xian and his brothers committed suicide as a result.
Ding Hong, in his petition to Emperor He, said that if the emperor rectified politics with his own hands, he should pay attention to preventing accidents when they began to sprout, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers and enable the country to have long-term peace and stability.
Three folds of his arm
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08/18/2003/09:23 huaxiajingwei.com
In the state of Jin, two groups of people, the Fan Clan and the Zhongxing Clan, were preparing to attack Duke Ding of Jin; at that time, it was pointed out that the key to the success or failure of the war depended on the support of the people, and if they could not gain the trust and support of the people, they would undoubtedly fail. The Fan and Zhongxing clans' attack on Duke Ding of Jin was an act of rebellion, and the people would not support them. Moreover, Duke Ding of Jin himself had once failed to conquer a ruler and ended up living in a foreign country, so he could be said to be a man who had experienced failure before. Just like a man who had broken his arm three times, although he was cured after medical treatment, he had already tasted the taste of breaking his arm; in the experience of breaking his arm and treating it several times, he had already understood the reason for breaking his arm, and the process and method of treating the arm, in other words, he was already a veteran in the field. In other words, he was a veteran in the field. Therefore, the meaning of the idiom "to break one's arm three times" is quite profound.
No matter who, as long as he is after many setbacks, from the hard struggle to get success, we can say that the ground is with the difficult struggle of the "three folded his humerus" of the people. A great man in the world is not born. He must have experienced a lot of setbacks, but still continue to struggle, the result of success. Failure is the mother of success, we can borrow the great people's "three folded his arm" to encourage people to encourage themselves.
The "three folds" of the greats can be used to encourage one's self.
The "three folds" of the greats can be used to encourage one's self.
The "three folds" of the greats can be used to encourage one's self.
Mi Youren (字元晖), the son of Mi Fu (米芾), a great calligrapher and painter of the Song Dynasty, was well educated in his family, and like his father, he was both a good writer and a long-time painter; he was especially fond of the works of the ancients. Once, he was in someone else's boat, saw Wang Xizhi real pen posters, happy what like, immediately want to take a good day to exchange, the master did not agree, he was so anxious to scream, climbed the side of the boat actually jumped into the water, fortunately, others quickly put him to hold him, so as not to fall into the water. He had a great skill, that is, he learned to imitate the paintings of the ancients. When he was in Lianshui, he once borrowed a "Pine and Cow Picture" from someone to copy. Later, he left the real one behind and returned the copy to the person, who did not realize it at that time. He took it and left. Until after a lot of days to return the original.
Mi Youren asked him how he could see it, and the man replied, "Inside the eyes of the real book, there is the shadow of a shepherd boy; and the one you returned to me does not." But Mi Youren imitated the paintings of the ancients, and it was seldom discovered that his mold was false. He often borrowed ancient paintings from people by all means to imitate them; and after imitating them, he always took the samples and the real ones together and sent them to the masters, asking them to choose for themselves. Because he copied the ancient paintings of the skill is very fine, and the mold and the real book molded exactly the same, the owner often take back the mold as the real book, Mi Youren thus obtained many valuable real ancient paintings.
Mi Youren is a talented artist, worthy of people's admiration, but also a lover and appreciator of ancient paintings, so that people know more about the beauty and value of the ancient paintings; however, he used that kind of imitation of the fake book cleverly in exchange for other people's real book behavior, is to call for people's disdain and disrespect. So some people put him this kind of clever way to cheat other people real ancient paintings behavior, called "tricky theft" later people and then from this extension into "tricky to take" this idiom, used to describe people with improper clever way, seize their own undeserved property. The idiom of "skillfully taking" means to cheat; "plundering" means to seize and pay. And this method of seizing property is often convenient and profitable, so there is the phrase "skillful stealing and plundering, so there is a lot to be gained," see ("Qingbo Magazine"), for example. The godly men who use sacred objects as a front often make up names and pretend to do some kind of Buddhist work to cheat the ignorant people of their belongings. Seize private property, this is "trickery and plunder".
Chu Ge on all sides
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08/18/2003/08:33 Huaxia Jingwei.com
It was originally agreed between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang that the east and west sides of the Honggou (on the Jialu River in present-day Rong County, Henan Province) would serve as the boundary, and that they would not encroach on each other. Later, Liu Bang listened to the advice of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping and felt that he should take advantage of Xiang Yu's weakened state to destroy him, so he again joined forces with Han Xin, Peng Yue and Liu Jia to pursue Xiang Yu's troops who were driving eastward to Peng Cheng (i.e., present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province). Finally, they arranged several layers of troops and surrounded Xiang Yu tightly in Gaixia (in the southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province). By this time, Xiang Yu had very few soldiers under his command and ran out of food. At night, he heard the troops surrounding him on all sides singing the folk songs of Chu, and could not help but be very surprised, saying: "Has Liu Bang already got the forbidden land? Why are there so many Chu people inside his troops?" Saying look, he had lost his fighting spirit in his heart, so he got up from his bed and drank wine inside his tent; and sang with his most favored concubine Yu Ji. After singing, he dropped his tears, and those who were beside him were also very sad, they all felt that they could not lift up their heads. After a while, Xiang Yu mounted his horse and fled from the south with only 800 cavalrymen. Fighting as he fled, he went to the bank of the Wu River and killed himself.
Because Xiang Yu was surprised when he heard the song of Chu being sung around him, and then failed to commit suicide, people later used the phrase "Chu Song on All Sides" to describe a situation where people were attacked or pressed from all sides, resulting in isolation and embarrassment.
Anyone who is trapped in such a situation, their fate is often very tragic, for example, a person is often with the bad guys, not productive, idle; but later broke those bad guys forced to make a living, help for others, others should be his usual behavior is too bad, never sympathize with the more ignored, the person is in a situation that is "four sides Chu Ge This person is in a situation where he is "being attacked from all sides". Another example is when academic issues are discussed in school, and a student is uneducated (an idiom meaning that there is no academics), makes irresponsible remarks, and turns right and wrong, and his classmates rise up to attack him, and the student is completely isolated, which can also be called "Chu Gao on all sides". In our life course, in our daily life, do a good job, down-to-earth work, if the line is wrong, we will inevitably have to suffer the "four sides of the song" of the doom and gloom.
Luoyang paper expensive
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08/14/2003/13:32 Huaxia Jingwei network
The idiom of "Luoyang paper is expensive" is known to many people now, but where did it come from? Originally, in the Western Jin Dynasty Taikang years out of a very famous writer called Zuo Si, he had done a "San Du Fu" in the capital city of Luoyang, widely circulated, people praise, copying, all of a sudden make the paper expensive several times. The original paper of 1,000 wen per cut went up to 2,000 wen or 3,000 wen, and then it was sold out; many people had to go abroad to buy paper to copy this ancient fugue.
However, Zuo Si wrote "San Du Fu" after many twists and turns to get attention; without Bole recognized talent, perhaps this "San Du Fu" will become a pile of waste paper, shall not be circulated.
When Zuo Si was a child, his father always looked down on him. Father Zuo Yong from a small official slowly to the royal historian, he saw his son short, unimpressive, stuttering, but showed a demented look, often said to outsiders regret having this son. As for Zuo Si's adulthood, Zuo Yong also said to his friends, "Although Zuo Si has become an adult, but the knowledge and reasoning he has mastered is not as good as when I was a child."
Unwilling to be subjected to such contempt, Zuo Si began to study furiously. When he read the Two Capitals Fugue written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Two Capitals Fugue written by Zhang Heng, although he admired the grandeur of the text, the magnificent rhetoric, and the capital grandeur of the Tokyo Luoyang and the Western Capital Chang'an, he could also see the drawbacks of the falsehood and the greatness of it. From then on, he was determined to write a "Three Capitals Fugue" based on facts and historical development, to include Yecheng, the capital of Wei, Chengdu, the capital of Shu, and Nanjing, the capital of Wu, during the Three Kingdoms period in the fugue.
In order to write the "Three Capitals Fu", which is based on the facts, Zuo Si began to collect a lot of information about history, geography, products, customs and people's feelings. After the collection, he closed the door, began to write. He meditated day and night in a room covered with books and paper, often for a long time before he came up with a satisfactory sentence. After ten years, the San Du Fu, which condensed Zuo Si's painstaking efforts, was finally written!
But when Zuo Si showed his work to others, he was ridiculed. Lu Ji, a famous writer at that time, also had the idea of writing the San Du Fu. When he heard that the unknown Zuo Si wrote the San Du Fu, he sarcastically said, "I don't know how thick the sky is, but how dare you want to surpass Ban Gu and Zhang Heng, you are too self-important!" He also wrote to his younger brother Lu Yun, "There is an arrogant fellow in the capital who wrote the San Du Fu, I think what he wrote is only worthy for me to use to cover the wine jar!"
When Zuo Si's Sandu Fu was evaluated in the literary world, those literary people, once they saw that the author was a nobody, did not read it carefully at all, shook their heads and waved their hands, and described a piece of Sandu Fu as useless. Zuo Si was not willing to bury his own work, and found the famous writer Zhang Hua.
Zhang Hua first read the San Du Fu sentence by sentence, and then asked Zuo Si's motives for the creation and the process, when he went back to examine the meaning and flavor of the sentences, he couldn't help but be y moved by the sentences in the text. The more he read, the more he loved it, and later he could not bear to let go of it. He praised, "The article is very good! Those secular literati only emphasize fame but not articles, and their words are not worth mentioning. Mr. Huang Fu Qui is very famous and upright, let me join him in recommending your article to the world!"
Huang Fu Qui was also overwhelmed with emotion after reading the San Du Fu, and he spoke highly of the article and gladly put pen to paper to write a preface for it. He also invited Zhang Zai, the writer of the book, to make a note for Wei Du Fu, one of the three capitals, and Liu Kui, the writer of Zhu Zhongshulang, to make a note for Shu Du Fu and Wu Du Fu. Liu Kui said in the note: "The world often pay attention to the ancient people things, and belittle the new things, new achievements, this is 'San Du Fu' began not to spread to the world reason ah!"
Under the recommendation of the preface of the celebrities, "Sandu Fu" soon became popular in Kyoto, and everyone who knew about literature praised it. Even Lu Ji, who used to sneer at Zuo Si, read it carefully after he heard about it, nodding his head and saying; "It's so well written, it's really unimaginable." He concluded that if he were to write the San Du Fu again, he would never surpass Zuo Si, so he stopped writing.
We can see that the same article, some people put it down to worthless, some people make it famous for a while. This is of course the difference between people with high and low discernment, but more importantly, it reflects whether people attach importance to the new force, and whether they are able to recognize the problem of talent.
Inside the help of the virtuous
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08/14/2003/12:28 Huaxia Jingwei Network
Yan Ying was the prime minister of Duke Jing of Qi during the Warring States period, the body is not very tall, according to the cloud is less than six feet long (equivalent to the present four feet three inches) but he is very talented, known to the lords, one day Yanying went out and sat to look at the car, driven by his imperialist (coachman). The wife of the driver was very virtuous, and when the driver passed the door of his house, his wife peeped through the door and saw her husband waving the whip and looking smug.
When her husband came home that night, she scolded him, saying, "Yan Ying is less than six feet long, but he has become the prime minister of Qi, and his fame has spread to the whole world, and all the lords of the country know him and admire him. I see his attitude, or very modest, not at all complacent meaning; you are eight feet long, the appearance of much more majestic than him, only to be his motorist, but also complacent, look very eye-catching and arrogant appearance, so you will not be developed, only do some lowly positions, I really feel embarrassed for you!"
Since the emperor listened to his wife's words, his attitude gradually changed, and he was modest and kind in every way. When Yan Ying saw the emperor's sudden modesty, he felt very strange, and asked him the reason; the emperor told Yan Ying honestly what his wife had said. Yan Ying thought that he had heard the advice and was able to correct himself immediately, and that he was a person worthy of promotion, so he recommended him to become the official of a great doctor.
From this story, the later generations have extended it to compliment people for having good wives. Today, if a wife can help her husband to make progress in his career, study and character, and increase his status in the society, she is said to have the virtue of internal help.
Mouth Honey and Sword
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07/16/2003/11:21 huaxiajingwei.com
Source: "Ziji Tongjian - Tang Ji - Xuanzong Tiankongyuanian" Li Linfu for the phase, especially jealous of the literature of the scholar, or Yang and the good, eat to sweet words and Yin trapped. The world said that Li Linfu had "honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly".
The metaphor is that Li Linfu's words are as sweet as honey, but in his stomach he has a hidden agenda to harm others.
Story: Li Linfu was the official of "Minister of War" and "Minister of the Central Book", which was the position of the prime minister of Tang Xuanzong.
This man was not bad in terms of talent, he could write and paint well. But in terms of character, it is bad. He is jealous of talent and harm, where the talent is stronger than him, reputation than him, power and status and he is almost the same person, he will do anything to exclude the fight. To Tang Xuanzong, he has a set of flattering and flattering skills. He tried his best to accommodate Emperor Xuanzong, and used all sorts of tactics to please Emperor Xuanzong's favored concubines as well as eunuchs in his heart, to gain their hearts and support, in order to keep his position.
Li Linfu and people in contact with the appearance of always show a look of amiability, mouth as much as say some nice "goodwill" words, but in fact, his character is very bright and cunning, often secretly harm people. For example, once, he pretended to be sincere look to his colleague Li Shizhi said: "Huashan produces a lot of gold, if you can mine out, can greatly increase the country's wealth. Unfortunately, the emperor did not know it yet. Li Shizhi thought it was true, rushed to suggest that Emperor Xuanzong quickly mining, Emperor Xuanzong was very happy to hear, and immediately brought Li Linfu to discuss, Li Linfu said: "I have known about this matter, Huashan is the emperor of the 'feng shui' concentration of the place, how can you casually mining it? Other people persuade you to mine, I am afraid that it is not good intention; I several times want to tell you about this matter, just do not dare to speak."
Xuanzong was impressed by his words, and thought that he was really a loyal and patriotic minister, but instead, he was greatly dissatisfied with Xizhi, and gradually alienated him. In this way, Li Linfu with this set of special "skills", he has been the prime minister for nineteen years.
Later, when Sima Guang was compiling "The Great Encyclopedia of Political Science", he commented on Li Linfu, pointing out that he was a man with a honeyed tongue and a sword in his belly, which is very much in line with the reality.
Bin to a home
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07/10/2003/14:27 huaxiajingwei.com
Explanation: A guest arrives here as if he were returning to his own home. It describes that the host treats the guests warmly and thoughtfully, and the visitors feel satisfied.
This idiom comes from "Zuo Zhuan. Xiang Gong 31", "When a guest is at home, there is no fear of disaster, no fear of robbers, and no fear of dampness.
Zi Chan (子产), or Gongsun Qiao (公孙侨), was a great physician of the state of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋), and was the prime minister of the state for many years, ruling the state of Zheng.
In 542 B.C., Zi Chan was ordered by Duke Jian of Zheng to visit the state of Jin, bringing many gifts. At that time, Duke Xiang of Lu died, and Duke Ping of Jin did not welcome the Zheng envoy on the pretext of mourning for the state of Lu. Zi Chan then ordered his entourage to tear down the walls of the Jin guesthouse, then drive in the carriages and horses and plant the goods.
When Duke Ping of Jin learned of this, he was taken aback, and sent Shi Wenbo, a great physician, to the hotel to rebuke Zi Chan. Shi Wenbo said: "My country is the ally of all the lords, and many officials from all the lords come to visit us. In order to prevent thieves and ensure the safety of our guests, we have built this hotel with a thick wall to prevent them from coming to visit us. Now that you have torn down the wall, what will happen to the safety of the guests from other vassals? The ruler of my country wants to know what your intention is in tearing down the wall."
Zi Chan replied, "We, the state of Zheng, are a small state and need to pay tribute to a great state. This time we brought the property we had scrounged from our own country to the court, but we met your ruler who was not available, and we could neither see him nor know the date of our entrance. I have heard that in the past, when Duke Wen of Jin was the lord of the league, he lived in a small palace, but the hotels for the lords were built high and large. When the guests arrived, everything was taken care of, and gifts were presented quickly. He and his guests were in solidarity; if you didn't understand, he taught you; if you were in trouble, he helped you. Guests came here as if they were returning to their own homes. However, the palace of Jin's Copper Shoe Mountain now had several miles of ground, while the guests of the lords were allowed to live in the house where slaves lived. We can't get cars in at the gate, and there's no exact date for the reception. We can't get in over the wall, and if we don't tear down the fence and let these gifts be exposed by day and night, it will be our sin. If we are allowed to hand over the gifts, we are willing to fix the wall and go back."
Shi Wenbo reported the situation to the Duke of Jin Ping, who was ashamed and immediately received Zi Chan, feasted him solemnly, gave him a generous return gift, and ordered the hotel to be rebuilt.
Corpse Sound History
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08/14/2003/11:04 huaxiajingwei.com
Corpse yinshi, a person who sits and watches on behalf of the idol without having to perform any action in ancient rituals.
"The Book of the Scriptures" has a sentence: "Taikang corpse position" "corpse position is derived from this, used as a metaphor for a person who has a position but no work to do, just as the corpse in the rituals, just sit on the seat, do not have to do any action. The same as the corpse in a sacrificial ceremony.
The word "vegetarian" also comes from the Book of Songs: "A gentleman does not eat a vegetarian meal." Later generations used the term "vegetarian meal" as a metaphor for a person who does not have any achievements or rewards. The combination of "corpse position" and "vegetarian meal" into one idiom should be said to be from the "Book of Han", because the book's "Zhu Yun Zhuan The idiom of "Zhu Yun's biography" reads, "The ministers of the imperial court, who are unable to help their masters at the top, and who are unable to help the people at the bottom, are all eating without a care in the world. The meaning of the whole idiom is also the same as that of the above-mentioned corpse and vegetarian meal. In this way, if we want to study the origin of idioms, we should also know in detail about the origin of the split of this idiom.
The redundant members of organizations, associations, and stores in general, who, by virtue of their personnel or other special connections, only know how to receive their monthly salaries on schedule, and who eat, drink, and sit idly every day without doing any work, can be said to have "eaten without a body". In addition, the general work ability is very poor people, although they have done their ability to serve, but things always do not do well, no success can be said, such people can maintain their positions, not by their own ability, but through special relations, so it can also be said that "the corpse is not eating". Another example is when a person says to his friends that he originally had no skills, but fortunately, thanks to the Lord's care, he has been able to solve the problem of living, but that he has "eaten all the food of his body," and that he feels a little guilty in his conscience. This has become a very decent and modest statement.