The quantifiers in China's idioms are not real quantifiers, but imaginary numbers, which often indicate. For example, the ninth five-year plan.
The ninth five-year plan, that is, to reach its peak. And talented people, eight fights, is also an extreme meaning. Who invented this allusion? Who does he mean?
"Eight fights" is a metaphor used by Xie Lingyun, a poet of the Southern Dynasties, in praising Cao Zhi, a poet of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms. He said, "There is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian (Cao Zhi) monopolizes eight fights. When I fight, the world is divided into one battle. " Later, people compared the idiom "gifted scholar and beautiful woman" to a person with brilliant literary talent.
Xie Lingyun, a state-owned writer in Southern Song Dynasty, was a famous landscape poet in ancient China. His poems mostly describe the scenic spots in Guangxi, Yongjia and Lushan, and are good at depicting natural scenery, creating a school of landscape poems in the history of literature. His poems are very artistic, paying special attention to formal beauty, and are very popular among scholars. As soon as this poem came out, people scrambled to copy it and it was widely circulated. Song Wendi appreciated his literary talent and specially recalled him to Kyoto, calling his poems and calligraphy "two treasures", and often asked him to write poems and compositions while serving banquets. Xie Lingyun, who has always been pretentious, is even more arrogant after receiving this courtesy. On one occasion, while drinking, he boasted: "Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there has been only one stone of literary talent in the world (capacity unit, one stone equals ten buckets), among which Cao Zijian (that is, Cao Zhi) monopolizes eight buckets, and I have a bucket, and everyone else in the world has a bucket." As can be seen from his words, except for Cao Zhi, the talents of others are not in his eyes, and his self-evaluation is very high.
Lingyun, Kasper?, pioneered the word "Eight Doors", and later generations called those with outstanding talents "gifted scholars" or "Eight Doors". For example, there is a saying in Tang Dynasty's "Offering Assistant Minister Yang in Inner Han Dynasty": "Keep your mouth shut in warm summer, and give eight talents to the palace." There is a sentence in "Alas" by Li Shangyin, a classmate of the Tang Dynasty: "I have exhausted my talents by sitting and knowing the worries of the Heaven Pavilion." Wait a minute.