Idiom title idiom explanation
A statue is more important than anything else: obedience and catering; Respect and nobility: dignitaries with high status. Refers to catering to and serving the powerful.
Source: The Biography of King Chu Yuan written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Things that can't respect yourself, things that can't help others, and things that can't be tired."
Shoulu and Shoulu: Shoulu position; Make friends: Make friends with powerful people. Make friends with powerful people to keep your position.
Source: Guanzi Faming: "I keep my promise to keep my friends, and I don't take the official as a thing, so the official is disabled."
Chueh-hui: Speculation, speculation. Now it refers to trying to figure out and cater to the wishes of powerful people for personal gain.
Source: Qing Wu Jingzi's "The Scholars" back to the 55 th: "That poor Confucian scholar, but what he did was just flattering the imperial examinations."
Dong Hu's pen Dong Hu: a historian of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Straight pen: according to the facts, truthfully record. Refers to an upright historian who dares to write straight books, respects historical facts and doesn't care about dignitaries as their agents.
Source: In the second year of Zuo Zhuan, there was a record of Zhao's murder, but as an official of the Qing Dynasty, it was not in charge of this matter. Dong Hu thinks Zhao Dun should be responsible, so he recorded "Zhao Dun killed the king" in Shi Ce. Killed by Zhao Dun. Later Confucius praised: "Donghu, ancient history, calligraphy is not hidden."
Innocent girl: Attachment. Birds snuggle up to people. Metaphor is attached to the powerful. It also symbolizes the petite, submissive and amiable form of children and girls.
Source: Song Queming's Song Dynasty is almost two years old: "Today, Song's father died like a passer-by, only trying to introduce him, wagging his tail for mercy and acting like a bird."
The phoenix attached to the dragon climbing refers to the achievement attached to the imperial power.
Source: Han's "Fa Yan": "Climbing Longlin with Phoenix Wings."
Attached to mutton: the smell of mutton. Attachment and pursuit of fishy things. Metaphor curry favor with the powerful, chasing personal interests. The so-called "attached filth"
Giants and giants: the home of the strong; Jushi: Everyone is a noble family. Refers to a rich family.
Source: Biography of the Book of Jin Yan You: "His courtiers are civil and military generals and officials below, and they don't accept the children of wealthy families." "Mencius Li Lou": "It is not difficult to be a politician and not to offend the giant room."
The power shown by Smith. Metaphor means that powerful people collude with their minions to take power.
Source: "The Warring States Policy Chu Ce I": "The tiger seeks all kinds of animals and eats them, and it gets its fox. ..... The tiger thought so, too, and followed. When the beast saw it, he walked away, but the tiger didn't know that the beast was afraid of himself and thought he was afraid of the fox. "
Cold-faced and cold-iron metaphor means that honest officials are not afraid of powerful people.
Source: A New Biography of Zhou in the Ming Dynasty: "If you dare to talk more, you will be surprised, and your eyes will be cold."
Burying a wheel and breaking a column is a metaphor for being upright and not afraid of powerful people.
Source: Tang Yuanzhen's "Zhu Peishiyu Historical System": "Those who return to the season and bury the wheel column are gone forever. I am very different. "
A famous minister refers to a prestigious official. Also known as "a famous public official".
Famous officials and dignitaries refer to prestigious dignitaries. Same as "famous public officials and big officials".
Famous and powerful, famous and powerful. Refers to prestigious dignitaries.
Poor pride is poor pride. Refers to the poor look down on powerful people.
Source: Historical Records Wei Shijia: "Is the rich glorious? And the poor are proud of it? "
Breaking the fence to seek rape is not afraid of the powerful and searching for the bad guys, taking the allusion of the country of the son of heaven as an example.
Source: Mars in the Later Han Dynasty: "When Zhang made Di Shuo an order of the wild king, he was greedy and incompetent. He even killed a pregnant woman, and when he heard about your majesty, he fled back to Beijing for fear of sin. He gave up his brother and hid in the column because he was hiding from him. Knowing its shape, he led the official to break the column and take the new moon, and handed it over to Luoyang prison. When you quit your job, kill it. "
Song Zhao, the impartial censor, is the imperial censor in the temple. He impeached powerful people and was called the impartial censor. Later, it was generally called an official who was not afraid of powerful people, impartial and strict with himself.
Source: A Biography of Zhao in Song Dynasty: "Ceng Gongliang, a bachelor of Hanlin, was recommended as an imperial advisor in the temple. He does not shy away from the right to impeach, claiming to be arrogant. "
Calling the phoenix to climb the dragon is like saying that climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix. Metaphor attached to emperors and dignitaries as their agents.
Drag the king's door: pull; See: the wardrobe of clothes. Metaphor is to be a diner under the powerful door.
Source: Han Zou Yang's Book of the King of Wu: "If you are humble, why can't you drag the door of the monarch?"
Lianyuan clings to the relationship, clings to the powerful, in order to get promoted.
Source: Yin Chuan of Ming Dynasty: "Song Cong and Bin Xu, an imperial envoy, were attached to each other from the beginning to the cabinet, all aiming at the central government."