The allusion about "not as good as the superior but more than the inferior" is from "Sanfu Juelu" written by Zhao Qi of the Han Dynasty.
Insufficient compared with the above, and more than sufficient compared with the below. The pinyin is bǐ shàng bù zú, bǐ xià yǒu yú, which means that you cannot catch up with the one in front, but surpass the one behind. The words come from Zhao Qi's "Preface to Sanfujuelu" of Han Dynasty.
In the story, Cui Ziyu and Du Bodu were two famous calligraphers in the Eastern Han Dynasty, while Luo Hui and Zhao Xi were two calligraphers slightly later than them. There was a man named Zhang Boying who was proud and complacent. He thought he could write better than Luo and Zhao.
He wrote to his friend Zhu Ci and said: "Although he is not as good as Cui and Du, he is more than Luo and Zhao." This sentence means that although he is still worse than Cui and Du, , but compared with Luo and Zhao, it is more than enough.
The role of using allusions:
1. Using allusions can strengthen arguments. Using classic examples can strengthen our arguments and increase our persuasiveness.
2. Allusions can also enrich our reading experience by enriching the content of the article, making it less simple and boring.
3. Using allusions can also highlight our arguments and clarify the center of our argument. Help us get around the central argument.
4. Allusions can also be used to draw parallels between the past and the present, and some words that cannot be said directly can be introduced in allusive stories.
5. The biggest role of using allusions is to express inner feelings. Express your ambitions. It is equivalent to using the characters in the allusions as your own role models and objects of learning. You can use different allusions to write about different moods, and there are some successful allusions that can describe your inner joy and happiness. Some allusions of failure can express the inner feelings of unrealized ambition and loss.