Quackery
Pronunciation
yōng rén zì rǎo
Explanation
Self-perturbation: looking for trouble by oneself. Refers to finding trouble on one's own when one is originally fine.
Origin
New Tang Dynasty Book - Lu Xiangxian's Biography: "There is nothing in the world, but the mediocre people bother by disturbing it."
Example
He paced halfway around the room, stopped at the door, turned his back to Zheng Chenggong, and said in a warning-like manner, "Don't ~." ★Hua and real "Han Clothes and Crown" three
"Children's Heroes", the second two: "According to my book looks, that the mediocrity of self-interference is also self-interference is limited; only this class of both the people who are good at winning clever friends, he is going to self-interference up, more since the poor!" Lu Xun, "Letters to Tai Jingnong": "Recently, the rumor mill has been ablaze with rumors, and most of the residents in the four vicinities have migrated, and the scenery is quite lonesome, and the people of Shanghai are already birds of prey, so they cannot be denigrated as 'mediocre people disturbing themselves'."
Usage
As predicate and object; referring to finding trouble by oneself
Allusion
Lu Xiangxian was a very generous person in the Tang Dynasty.
When Princess Taiping was in power at that time, the prime minister Xiao Zhizhong, Cen Yi and other ministers all turned to her, but only Xiangxian kept himself clean and never tried to flatter her. In the second year of the first day, Princess Taiping was killed, and Xiao Zhizhong and other ministers were executed. By this incident implicated many people, the elephant first secretly resolve, save many people, those people do not know.
Three years after the first day, Xiangxian became the minister of the Jiannan province, and one of the ministers advised Xiangxian, "I hope that Minggong will take some punishment to build up his reputation. Otherwise, I'm afraid no one will listen to us." Xiangxian said, "It is enough for those who are in power to be reasonable, why do we need to talk about severe punishment? This is not what generous people do."
Six years later, Xiangxian became the governor of Puzhou. Most of the officials and citizens who had committed crimes were released after some enlightenment and education. The official said, "If you don't whip them, how can you be so honorable?" Xiang Xian said, "Human feelings are similar, don't they understand my words? If there is to be torture, I think we should start with you first." The minister retired in shame. Xiangxian often said, "There is nothing wrong in the world, but it is people who make trouble for themselves and make things worse (mediocrity). If one could be awake to this at the beginning, things would be much simpler."