An idiom story——Suspicious neighbor steals an ax
Once upon a time there was a countryman who lost an axe. He thought that the neighbor's son had stolen it, so he paid attention to every word and action of the man. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the man looked like an ax thief. Later, the person who lost the ax found the ax. It turned out that when he went up the mountain to chop firewood a few days ago, he accidentally lost it in the valley. After finding the ax, he met the neighbor's son again. If he looked at him carefully, he didn't look like a thief.
Suspicious neighbors steal axes: Do not pay attention to factual basis, and make random suspicions about people and things.
2. Pull the seedlings to encourage growth
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer in the Song Dynasty. He always thought that the crops in the field grew too slowly. It seems that I never grow taller. He thought: Is there any way to make them grow taller and faster?
One day, he came to the field and pulled up the seedlings one by one. It took a lot of effort to pull out a large field of seedlings one by one. By the time he finished pulling out the seedlings, he was exhausted, but he was very happy in his heart. When he got home, he boasted: "I was exhausted today. I helped the seedlings grow several inches taller!" After hearing this, his son hurried to the field to see and found that all the seedlings in the field were dead.
3. Incurable
There was a minister in the Zhou Dynasty named Fan Bo. Fan Bo was not only talented in poetry, but also good at managing state affairs. Later, he assisted King Zhou Li in government affairs. However, King Li of Zhou was domineering and judged things in vain. The treacherous officials will use all kinds of flattery to please them. Fan Bo spoke frankly and enumerated the shortcomings of the government, but the treacherous ministers spoke ill of him in the ears of King Zhou Li. King Zhou Li was very tired of Fan Bo. From then on, treacherous ministers came in and out of the palace and ignored Fan Bo. Fan Bo was very angry and wrote a poem, which was later included in the Book of Songs. The poem criticized the treacherous minister and said: "He has done many evil things and is incurable!"
"Incurable": The illness is so serious that it cannot be saved with medicine. The latter is a metaphor for things being so bad that they cannot be saved.
4. Riding the wind and waves
In the ancient Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a general in the Song Dynasty named Zong Ming. He was brave and ambitious since he was a child. One day, Zongci's uncle asked him what his ambition was. Zongci replied: "I would like to ride the long wind and break thousands of miles of waves." It means: I must break through all obstacles, move forward bravely, and do something great. After studying hard and working hard, Zong Tie finally became a general who was good at fighting.
Later, people used "riding the wind and waves" to describe the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and moving forward bravely
5. A strip of water
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north and the Southern Zhou Dynasty in the south The State of Chen took the Yangtze River as its boundary.
Yang Jian, the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, deposed Emperor Zhou Jing, became emperor himself, and established the Sui Dynasty.
He was determined to destroy Chen Guo. He once said: "I am the parent of the people in the country. How can I watch the people in the south suffer and not save them just because there is a Yangtze River as narrow as a belt across the country?" Are they?
Later, people used "a strip of water" to describe two places that are very close to each other and are separated by a narrow body of water.
6. Mountains and flowing water.
< p>In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Boya who was proficient in music and had superb piano skills. He was a famous violinist at that time. When he was young, Yu Boya was smart and studious. After Boya's teacher knew his thoughts, he took him on a boat to Penglai Island in the East China Sea and let him enjoy the scenery of nature and listen to the sound of the waves of the sea. , I saw turbulent waves and splashing waves; seabirds flew and sang in my ears; the mountains and trees were lush and green, as if they were in a fairyland. A wonderful feeling suddenly appeared in my ears, and the harmonious and beautiful sounds of nature seemed to be playing in my ears. Music. He couldn't help but play the piano, turning the music at will, integrating the beauty of nature into the sound of the piano. The teacher told him: "You have learned it." "One night Boya took a boat trip. Facing the breeze and the bright moon, he had many thoughts, so he played the piano again. The sound of the piano was melodious and gradually got better. Suddenly he heard someone on the shore exclaiming. Boya heard the sound When he got out of the boat, he saw a woodcutter standing on the shore. Knowing that this man was a close friend, he immediately asked the woodcutter to come on board and play for him with great interest.
Boya played a melody praising the mountains, and the woodcutter said: "It's so good! It's majestic and solemn, like Mount Tai soaring into the clouds!" When he played to express the surging waves, the woodcutter said again: "It's so good! It's so vast and vast, it's like seeing rolling water and the boundless sea!" Boya was excited and said excitedly: "My soulmate! You are really my soulmate." This woodcutter is Zhong Ziqi. From then on the two became very good friends.
The story comes from "Liezi·Tang Wen". The idiom "high mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for a close friend or close friend, as well as a metaphor for beautiful music.
7. One-word teacher
Refers to the teacher who corrects a very key word in the article.
This phrase comes from "Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties" by Tao Yue of the Song Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous period in the development of my country's feudal society. Literature and art were also very developed, among which poetry was the most representative. At that time, not only were there many poets and they created many poems, but they were also very high-level in terms of art and content.
Among the many poets at that time, there was a poet named Qi Ji. One winter, in the wilderness after heavy snowfall, he saw the plum blossoms blooming proudly in the snow. He became so inspired by poetry that he composed a poem " The poem "Early Plum Blossoms" is about the plum blossoms that bloom early in winter. There are two lines in the poem that read: In the deep snow in the former village, several branches bloomed last night. After writing it, he felt very satisfied.
A man named Zheng Gu, after seeing this poem written by Qi Ji, thought that the meaning of the poem was not complete. So, after repeated thinking and deliberation, he changed these two lines of poem to: In the deep snow in the front village, a branch bloomed last night. Because he believes that since several plum blossoms are in bloom, it cannot be regarded as early plum blossoms.
Zheng Gu’s change, although only changing the number to one word, made "Early Plum Blossoms" more relevant to the title and the artistic conception of the poem more perfect. Qi already admired Zheng Gu's change very much and called Zheng Gu his Yizi master at that time.
8. Concentrate
Once upon a time there was an expert chess player named Qiu, and his chess skills were very superb.
Qiu had two students who were learning to play chess with him. One of the students was very focused on studying with the teacher. The other one is not like this. He thinks that learning to play chess is easy and there is no need to take it seriously. When the teacher was explaining, although he was sitting there with his eyes looking at the chess pieces, he was thinking in his heart: "It would be great if I could shoot a swan goose in the wild and have a delicious meal." Because he was always thinking and absent-minded. I didn't listen to the teacher's explanation at all.
As a result, although the two students were taught by the same famous teacher, one made rapid progress and became a famous chess player, while the other did not learn any skills.
Answer: _Wen_WEN_ - Trainee Magician Level 2 2-25 13:29
Follow the picture to find out
Sun Yang has a son and saw his father I wrote the "Horse Appraisal Sutra", thinking that it was easy to appraise horses, so I took this book and looked for good horses everywhere. He searched according to the figures drawn in the book, but found nothing. He also looked for it according to the characteristics written in the book, and finally found a toad that looked very much like the characteristics of a thousand-mile horse written in the book. He happily took the toad home and said to his father: "Dad, I found a thousand-mile horse, but it only has hooves." A little worse." When the father saw it, he couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't expect his son to be so stupid, so he said humorously: "It's a pity that this horse likes to jump too much and can't be used to pull the cart." Then he sighed: "It's called following the picture." /p>
Nankeyimeng
Explanation of the idiom: It describes a big dream, or it is a metaphor for empty joy.
The source of the idiom: "The Biography of the Prefect of Nanke" by Li Gongzuo of the Tang Dynasty
The story of the idiom: Chun Yufen was from the Tang Dynasty. Once, because he was drunk, he couldn't help but rest under the locust tree in the courtyard. Unexpectedly, he fell asleep because of this. In his dream, he saw the king of Huai'an State sending someone to take him to Huai'an State, and then married his beloved princess to him and appointed him as the prefect of Nanke County.
During this period, Chunyu Fen managed Nanke very well, and the king also appreciated him very much. His five sons all have titles, and his two daughters are also married to princes. Therefore, his status in Huaian Kingdom is very high.
Later, Tanluo Kingdom attacked Nanke County, and Chun Yufen's army lost. Then his wife also died of a serious illness. All these misfortunes made Chunyu Fen not want to continue living in Nanke County, so he returned to the capital.
However, in the capital, someone spoke ill of Chun Yufen in front of the king. The king did not investigate, so he arrested his child and sent him back to his hometown. As soon as he left Huaian Kingdom, Chun Yufen woke up and realized that it was a dream.
Soon, Chunyu Fen discovered that there was an ant hole under the locust tree in the courtyard. In the hole was a palace made of soil, a Hancheng pool, etc. He suddenly realized that the Huai'an Kingdom he saw in his dream should be It's this ant hole. The highest branch of the locust tree may be Nanke County where he was the governor.
Chun Yufen thought of everything about Nanke in his dream and felt that the world was very impermanent and that the so-called wealth and fame could easily disappear, so he finally retired to Taoism.
The story comes from "Yi Lin Cutting the Mountains" by Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty. The idiom "find things according to the picture" refers to doing things mechanically according to the old way without knowing how to adapt; it also refers to finding things according to certain clues. (End)
Banmen is playing with an axe
There is a pile of soil by the quarrying river, and Li Bai’s name is high through the ages;
A poem comes and goes, and Luban is playing with an ax in front of the door Big axe.
This is "Inscription on Li Bai's Tomb" by a poet from the Ming Dynasty. Li Bai is a world-famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, and his fame has been passed down through the ages after his death. How many literati passed by Li Bai's tomb wanted to stop for a while and recite poems to express their inner feelings. And their behavior can only be arty, "Lu Ban is doing everything in front of him", which is too overestimating his own abilities.
Lu Ban was a native of Lu during the Warring States Period. He is a master who is good at making exquisite utensils. People call him "Qiaoren" and the people have always regarded him as the ancestor of carpenters. Anyone who dares to show off his ax skills in front of Lu Ban's gate, that is, wants to show off his skills in front of big experts, is such an immodest and ridiculous behavior, it is called "making a big ax in front of Lu Ban's gate", or "making an ax in front of Lu Ban's gate" for short. . This is similar to the saying that "Guan Gong plays with a big sword in front of him".
In fact, the idiom "everyone works with an axe" had its prototype as early as the Tang Dynasty. Literary scholar Liu Zongyuan has this sentence in a preface: "Use an ax at the gate of Ban Ying, Si Yan'er!" This means that the use of an ax is shown in front of the gate of Lu Ban and Ying people (who are also expert axes). He's too thick-skinned for his ability.
This idiom is sometimes used as a self-effacing word to express that one does not dare to show off one's little skills in front of experts.
A cup of wine and a snake's shadow
One day, Le Guang invited his friends to drink in the hall of his home. While the friend was drinking, he suddenly saw the shadow of a small snake shaking in his glass. He was disgusted, but he drank the wine anyway. After drinking it, I felt really uncomfortable and uneasy. He fell ill when he returned home.
A few days later, Le Guang heard the news that his friend was ill and learned the reason for his illness. Le Guang thought to himself: "There will never be a snake in the wine glass!" So he ran to the place where he drank that day to check. It turned out that there was a colorfully painted bow hanging on the wall of the hall. The shadow of the bow happened to fall on the place where the friend had left the wine glass. Le Guang ran to the friend and explained the matter to him. After the man understood the reason, he immediately recovered from his illness.
Later, people used the metaphor of "cup, bow, snake shadow" to describe being suspicious and disturbing each other.
Bole looks at horses
It is said that the god who manages horses in the sky is called Bole. In the human world, people who are good at identifying the quality of horses are also called Bole.
The first person to be called Bole, whose real name was Sun Yang, was from the Spring and Autumn Period. Because of his excellent research on horses, people forgot his original name and simply called him Bole, which he has done to this day.
Once, Bole was entrusted by the King of Chu to buy a horse that could travel thousands of miles a day. Bole explained to the King of Chu that a thousand-mile horse was rare and difficult to find. He had to travel to various places. He asked the King of Chu not to be anxious. He would try his best to get things done.
Bole traveled to several countries and carefully searched for the Yanzhao area, which is rich in famous horses. He worked hard, but he still couldn't find the good horse he liked. One day, Bole returned from Qi State. On the road, he saw a horse-drawn salt truck driving on a steep slope with great difficulty. Ma was panting from exhaustion, and every step was very difficult. Bole has always been close to horses, so he couldn't help but walk up to them. When the horse saw Bole approaching, he suddenly raised his head, widened his eyes, and neighed loudly, as if he wanted to tell Bole something. Bole immediately judged from the voice that this was a rare horse.
Rare
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous scholar named Mi Heng who was extremely talented.
At that time, Kong Rong, the Taizhong doctor, particularly appreciated him and recommended him to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. He wrote: "The emperor's royal residence must have very precious treasures. Ruoheng and others are rare."
Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty did not dare to make the decision, so he handed Kong Rong's recommendation form to Cao Cao. Cao Cao loved talents, so he summoned Ni Heng. Unexpectedly, Mi Heng despised Cao Cao and was very rude to him. Cao Cao appointed Ni Heng as the drummer, and ordered him to play drums to entertain guests at banquets. Unexpectedly, Mi Heng cursed Cao Cao while beating the drum, which made Cao Cao very embarrassed. Cao Cao sent Ni Heng to Jingzhou to persuade Liu Biao to surrender, hoping to use Liu Biao's hand to kill him. Unexpectedly, Liu Biao treated Mi Heng as a guest of honor, and Mi Heng had to express his position every time he discussed matters or issued proclamations. Later Mi Heng was disrespectful to Liu Biao again. Liu Biao sent him to serve as secretary to the general Huang Zu. Ni Heng was arrogant and arrogant because of his talent. Later, he was finally killed by Huang Zu.
The idiom "rare" comes from this, describing something very rare and rare. It is mostly used to praise talented people
Incorrigible
There was a minister in the Zhou Dynasty named Fan Bo. Fan Bo was not only talented in poetry, but also good at managing state affairs. Later, he assisted King Zhou Li in government affairs. However, King Li of Zhou was domineering and judged things in vain. The treacherous officials will use all kinds of flattery to please them. Fan Bo spoke frankly and enumerated the shortcomings of the government, but the treacherous ministers spoke ill of him in the ears of King Zhou Li. King Zhou Li was very tired of Fan Bo. From then on, treacherous ministers came in and out of the palace and ignored Fan Bo. Fan Bo was very angry and wrote a poem, which was later included in the Book of Songs. The poem criticized the treacherous minister and said: "He has done many evil things and is incurable!"
"Incurable": The illness is so serious that it cannot be saved with medicine. The latter is a metaphor for things being so bad that they cannot be saved.
Neither learning nor skills
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, General Huo Guang was an important minister in the court and won the trust of Emperor Wu. Before Emperor Wu's death, he entrusted his youngest son Liu Fuling (Emperor Zhao) to Huo Guang's assistance. After the death of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang established Liu Xun as emperor (Emperor Xuan). Huo Guang has held political power for more than 40 years and made considerable contributions to the Western Han Dynasty.
After Liu Xun inherited the throne, he made Concubine Xu the queen. Huo Guang's wife Huo Xian was a woman who coveted wealth. She wanted to marry her youngest daughter Chengjun to Liu Xun and become his queen, so she took advantage of Empress Xu's illness and bribed a female doctor to poison Empress Xu to death. The vicious plot was exposed and the female doctor was imprisoned. Huo Guang didn't know anything about this in advance. Huo Xiancai told him only when the incident came out. Huo Guang was very frightened and accused his wife of doing such a thing. He also wanted to report it, but he couldn't bear the thought of his wife being punished. After much deliberation, he concealed this outrageous matter. After Huo Guang's death, someone reported the case to Emperor Xuan, who sent people to investigate and deal with it. Huo Guang's wife heard about it, discussed countermeasures with her family and cronies, and decided to summon the clan members to plot a rebellion. Not wanting the news to leak out, Emperor Xuan sent troops to surround the Huo family and kill everyone in the family.
Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented on Huo Guang's merits and demerits in "The Biography of Huo Guang in the Book of Han", saying that he was "ignorant and inferior to Dali", which means that Huo Guang did not study and had no knowledge, so he did not know the relationship between the two. The overall truth. The idiom "without learning and skills" means without knowledge or skills
Talented
Xie Lingyun in the Southern Dynasties was a writer who wrote a large number of landscape poems. He is smart and studious, has read many books, and has been loved by his grandfather Xie Xuan since he was a child.
He was born into a noble family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because he inherited the title of Duke Kangle, the world called him "Xie Kangle". As a prince, he had no real power and was sent to Yongjia as the prefect. Xie Lingyun lamented that he often neglected his official duties and went sightseeing instead of seeing his talents. Later, he resigned and moved to Kuaiji, where he often drank and had fun with his friends. The local governor sent someone to persuade him to moderate his behavior, but he was angrily reprimanded. However, the landscape poems written by Xie Lingyun are deeply loved by people. Every time he wrote a new poem, it would be copied immediately and spread quickly.
After Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty took over, he recalled him to the capital as an official and praised his poetry and calligraphy as "two treasures". Xie Lingyun became even more proud. He said: "There is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian has eight buckets. I have one bucket, and all the people in the world are divided into one bucket." They were all regarded as enemy soldiers.
This idiom comes from "Book of Jin. Fu Jian's Records". Jian and Fu Rong climbed to the city and looked at the king's army. They saw that the troops were in good order and the soldiers were well-equipped. ; Looking north, the vegetation on Bagong Mountain is all human-like.
In 383 AD, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, who basically unified the north, led 900,000 troops and went south to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty appointed Xie Shi as a general and Xie Xuan as a vanguard, leading 80,000 elite troops to fight.
After Qin army forward Fu Rong captured Shouyang (now Shouxian County, Anhui), Fu Shu personally led 8,000 cavalry to the city. He listened to Fu Rong's judgment and believed that the Jin soldiers were vulnerable and that as long as his follow-up army arrived, they would definitely win a complete victory. So he sent a man named Zhu Xu to persuade Xie Shi to surrender.
Zhu Xu was originally an official of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After meeting Xie Shi, he reported the Qin army's defense situation and suggested that the Jin army attack Luojian (now Dongluo River in Huainan, Anhui) before the follow-up army of the former Qin arrived. . Xie Shi followed his advice and sent troops to sneak attack the Qin camp, resulting in a great victory. The Jin soldiers took advantage of the victory and marched towards Shouyang.
Fu Jian was shocked when he learned that Luojian was defeated and that Jin troops were coming towards Shouyang. He immediately climbed to the top of Shouyang City with Fu Rong and personally observed the movements of Jin troops on the other side of Fei River. It was the middle of winter and it was cloudy. Looking from a distance, the sky over Feishui was gray. If you look carefully, you will see that there are many masts and warships there, and the Jin soldiers are very neatly armed with swords and halberds. He couldn't help but secretly praise the Jin troops for their orderly deployment and well-trained troops.
Then Fu Jian looked north again. There lies the Bagong Mountain, which has eight rolling peaks and the terrain is very dangerous. The base camp of the Jin soldiers was stationed at the foot of Bagong Mountain. As a gust of northwest wind roared by, the swaying vegetation on the mountain looked like countless soldiers in motion. Fu Jian's face suddenly turned pale, and he turned around in horror and said to Fu Rong: "The Jin army is a powerful enemy, how can we say it is a weak army?"
Soon, Fu Jian fell into Xie Xuan's plan, He ordered the army to retreat slightly and let the Jin soldiers cross the Feishui River for a decisive battle. As a result, the Qin soldiers trampled on each other when they retreated, were defeated, and returned to the north defeated.
This battle is the famous Battle of Feishui in history. It is a famous example in history of using less to defeat more and weak to defeat strong.
Learning to walk in Handan
According to legend, two thousand years ago, there was a young man in the Shouling area of ??Yan State. He had no worries about food and clothing, and he was considered to be of average talent in terms of appearance, but he just lacked self-confidence. In my heart, I often feel that everything is inferior to others and inferior to others for no reason - the clothes are good for others, the food is delicious for others, and the way they stand and sit is also elegant. He learns everything he sees, and throws away the same things he learns. Although he tries new tricks, he still can't do one thing well, and he doesn't know what he should look like.
The family members advised him to correct this problem. He believed that the family members were too involved. Relatives and neighbors said that he was a bully and a stick, but he didn't listen at all. As time went by, he actually doubted whether he should walk like this. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that his walking posture was too stupid and ugly.
One day, he met a few people chatting and laughing on the road, and he only heard someone say that the Handan people have beautiful walking postures. When he heard this, he hurried forward and wanted to find out. Unexpectedly, when those people saw him, they laughed and walked away.
How beautiful is the walking posture of Handan people? He couldn't imagine it, and it became a problem for him. Finally one day, without telling his family, he went to distant Handan to learn to walk.
As soon as he arrived in Handan, he felt that everything was fresh and dazzling. When he sees a child walking, he feels lively and beautiful, and he learns from it; when he sees an old man walking, he feels steady, and he learns from it; when he sees a woman walking, swaying in various ways, he learns from it. Just like that, it was only half a month later, he couldn't even walk anymore, and all his travel expenses were spent, so he had to crawl back.
The story comes from "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters". The idiom "Learning in Handan" refers to imitating others mechanically. Not only will you fail to learn from others' strengths, but you will also lose your own strengths and abilities.
Referring to a deer as a horse
English
During the Second Qin Dynasty, Prime Minister Zhao Gao was ambitious and planned day and night to usurp the throne. But he didn't know how many ministers in the court could listen to him, and how many people opposed him. So, he thought of a way to test his prestige and at the same time find out who dared to oppose him.
One day when he went to court, Zhao Gao asked someone to bring a deer and said to Qin II with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, I will give you a good horse." Qin II took a look and said, I thought: This is not a horse, this is obviously a deer! Then he smiled and said to Zhao Gao: "The prime minister made a mistake. There is a deer here. How do you say it is a horse?" Zhao Gao said without changing his expression and without a heartbeat: "Please see clearly, your majesty, this is indeed a thousand-mile horse." .
Qin II looked at the deer again and said doubtfully, "How come there are horns on the horse's head?" Zhao Gao turned around, pointed at the ministers, and said loudly: "If your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can ask the ministers." "
The ministers were all confused by Zhao Gao's nonsense, and whispered privately: What is this Zhao Gao doing? Isn't it obvious that he is a deer or a horse! When he saw the expression on Zhao Gao's face With a sinister smile on his face and his eyes staring at everyone in turn, the ministers suddenly understood his intention.
Some people who are timid and have a sense of justice lower their heads and dare not speak, because telling lies would offend their conscience, and telling the truth would make them afraid of being harmed by Zhao Gao in the future. Some upright people insist that it is a manual. It's not a horse. There were also some treacherous people who usually followed Zhao Gao closely. They immediately expressed their support for Zhao Gao's statement and said to the emperor, "This is indeed a thousand-mile horse!" "
Afterwards, Zhao Gao used various means to punish those upright ministers who disobeyed him, and even executed them all.
Back away from home tuì bì sān shě
English
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Xian of Jin believed the slander and killed the crown prince Shen Sheng. He also sent people to capture Shen Sheng's younger brother Chong'er. After hearing the news, Chong'er escaped from Jin and lived in exile for more than ten years.
After many hardships, Chong'er came to Chu. King Cheng of Chu thought that Chong'er would do great things in the future, so he welcomed him with the courtesy of the people of the country and treated him like a distinguished guest.
One day, the King of Chu hosted a banquet for Chong'er, and the two were drinking and chatting in a very harmonious atmosphere. Suddenly, the King of Chu asked Chong'er: "How will you repay me if you return to Jin one day and become the king?" Chong'er thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, you have plenty of beauties, precious silks, rare bird feathers, ivory and animal skins, which are abundant in the Chu region. How can Jin have any rare items to offer to your Majesty?" The King of Chu said, "Young Master is too modest." Even though you say that, you should still express something to me, right? Chong'er smiled and replied: "It's thanks to you." If I can really return to my country and take charge, I would like to be friendly with your country. If one day a war breaks out between Jin and Chu, I will definitely order the army to retreat for three hectares (one hara is equal to thirty miles). If I still cannot get your forgiveness, I will fight you again. "
Four years later, Chong'er really returned to Jin and became the king. He was the famous Duke Wen of Jin in history. Jin became increasingly powerful under his governance.
BC In 633, the armies of Chu and Jin met during a battle. In order to fulfill his promise, Duke Wen of Jin ordered the army to retreat ninety miles and stationed in Chengpu. When the Chu army saw the Jin army retreating, they thought the other side was afraid and immediately moved. Pursue. The Jin army took advantage of the Chu army's weakness of being proud and underestimating the enemy, and concentrated its forces to defeat the Chu army and win the Battle of Chengpu.
The story comes from "Zuo Zhuan: Idioms in the Twenty-Two Years of Duke Xi". "Stand back" is a metaphor for not fighting with others or taking the initiative to give in.
Looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst
English
One summer, Cao Cao led his troops to attack Zhang Xiu, and the weather was hot. Surprisingly, the sun was blazing, and there was not a cloud in the sky. The troops were walking on the winding mountain road. The dense trees on both sides and the sun-scorched rocks made it suffocating. At noon, the soldiers were exhausted. The clothes were soaked, and the marching speed also slowed down. Several weak soldiers fainted on the roadside.
Cao Cao saw that the marching speed was getting slower and slower, and he was worried that he would miss the chance of fighting. Anxious. But now tens of thousands of people couldn't even drink water, so how could they speed up? He immediately called the guide and asked him quietly: "Is there any water source nearby? The guide shook his head and said, "The spring is on the other side of the valley. It's still a long way to go around." Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "No, there's not enough time." He looked at the woods in front of him, pondered for a while, and said to the guide: "Don't say anything, I'll figure it out." "He knew that even if he ordered the troops to speed up at this moment, it would be useless. After thinking about it, he came up with a solution. He clamped the horse's belly and rushed to the front of the team. He pointed forward with his whip and said: "Soldiers, I know there is a large area ahead. Merlin, the plums there are big and delicious. Let’s hurry up and go around this hill to Merlin! "When the soldiers heard this, they felt as if they had already eaten it. Their spirits were lifted, and they couldn't help but speed up their pace.
The story comes from "Shishuoxinyu·Jiajue". The idiom "Looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst" is a metaphor for using fantasy. Comfort yourself or others.
hiding one's ears and stealing the bell
English
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhibo, a nobleman of Jin State, destroyed the Fan family. Someone took the opportunity to go to Fan's house to steal something, and saw a big bell hanging in the yard. The bell is made of fine bronze and has exquisite shapes and patterns. The thief was very happy and wanted to carry this beautiful clock back to his home. But the clock was so big and heavy that it couldn't be moved. After much deliberation, he found only one way, which was to break the clock into pieces and then move them home separately.
The thief found a big hammer and hit the clock with all his strength. A loud bang made him jump. The thief panicked, thinking that this was too bad. Didn't this sound tell people that I was stealing the clock here? He was so anxious that he threw himself on the clock and opened his arms to cover the sound of the bell, but how could he cover it! The sound of the bell still sounds long and distant.
The more he listened, the more frightened he became. He could not freely withdraw his hands and cover his ears with all his strength. "Hey, the bell has become smaller and can't be heard anymore!" The thief became happy. "It's wonderful! If you can't cover your ears, you can't hear the bell!" He immediately found two cloth balls and covered his ears. Stop it, thinking, now no one can hear the bell. So he let go and hit the clock. Every time, the bell sounded loudly and spread far away. People heard the bell and swarmed to catch the thief.
The story comes from "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Self-Knowledge" "Hiding one's ears and stealing the bell" is said to be "covering one's ears and stealing the bell", which is a metaphor for the cover-up behavior of stupidity and self-deception.