synonym
Confuse right and wrong, reverse black and white, distinguish right from wrong.
antonym
Distinguish between right and wrong, be conscientious, be practical and realistic. Homophonic words: pretending to be deaf and dumb, tapping and beating, elegant writing and dynamic behavior.
Referring to deer as the source of horse allusions
Sima Qian's "Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor": Zhao Gao wanted to make trouble, and he was afraid that the minister would not listen. He first set up a behave and offered a deer in the second place, saying: Ma Ye. The second one smiled and said, Is the Prime Minister wrong? Call a deer a horse. Left ask right ask, left ask right ask, or silence, or say Ma Yishun Zhao Gao. Or those who talk about deer are high because people who talk about deer in the shade can use it. After all, ministers are afraid of heights. Han; Lu Jia's new language; Confusion: In Qin Ershi's time, Zhao Gao rode a deer. The king said: what is the prime minister driving a deer? Gao Yue: Ma Ye. The king said: The Prime Minister also made a mistake and took the deer as a horse. Gao Yue: Your Majesty wants to ask his ministers if I have another statement. I said it was half deer and half horse. At this time, the king of Qin could not rightfully follow the theory of evil ministers. When he was in Qin Ershi, Zhao Gao and II traveled in a deer. I asked him: Why did the Prime Minister chase deer? Zhao Gao said: This is a horse! The second one said: The Prime Minister was wrong and took the deer as a horse. Zhao Gao said: This is indeed a horse! If (Your Majesty) thinks what I said is wrong, I hope (Your Majesty's permission) to ask the ministers. Ministers say it's half deer and half horse. At this time, the king of Qin did not believe in himself, but trusted the treacherous court official.
Translate from deer to horse
Zhao Gao wants to rebel (usurp the Qin regime), and I'm afraid the ministers won't listen to him, so they set a trap and test it first. So he brought a deer to II and said, This is a horse. Junior said with a smile, is the Prime Minister wrong? You call a deer a horse. Ask the minister around him. Some ministers were silent, some deliberately catered to Zhao Gao, saying it was a horse, and some said it was a deer. Zhao Gao used the law as an excuse to secretly slander (or frame) people who said they were deer. Since then, ministers have been afraid of Zhao Gao.
An idiom story that refers to a deer as a horse
Qin Ershi's prime minister, Zhao Gao, is ambitious, planning to usurp the throne all day long. However, he doesn't know how many people can be at his mercy and how many people are against him. So he thought of a way to test his prestige and find out who dared to oppose him.
One day, Zhao Gao brought a deer into the palace and said to Qin Ershi with a big smile, "Your Majesty, I will give you a good horse." Qin Ershi looked at it and thought: This is not a horse, this is obviously a deer! He smiled and said to Zhao Gao, "The Prime Minister has made a mistake. There is a deer here. How can you say it's a horse? " Zhao Gao said with a straight face: "Please see clearly, this is indeed a swift horse." Qin Ershi looked at the deer again and said incredulously, "Why does a horse have horns on its head?" Zhao Gao turned around, pointed to the ministers and said loudly, "Your Majesty can ask the ministers if you don't believe me."
Ministers were all at a loss by Zhao Gao's nonsense, and whispered privately: What is this Zhao Gao doing? It's obviously a deer or a horse! Ministers see Zhao Gao sinister smile on his face, eyes staring at Zhao Gao in turn, eyes staring at everyone in turn, suddenly understand Zhao Gao's intention.
Some timid people with a sense of justice bow their heads and dare not speak, because telling lies is sorry for their conscience, and telling the truth is afraid of being hurt by Zhao Gao in the future. Some honest people insist that it is manual rather than horse. There are also some adulterers who usually follow Zhao Gao closely and immediately support Zhao Gao's statement and say to the emperor, "This is indeed a swift horse!"
Afterwards, Zhao Gao punished those honest ministers who did not obey him by various means, and even copied them.
The story comes from Historical Records of Qin Shihuang. The idiom "referring to a deer as a horse" is a metaphor for deliberately reversing right and wrong and confusing black and white.
Brief introduction of Zhao Gao
Zhao Gao (? -207 years ago), won the surname, Zhao. Emperor Qin Ershi was the prime minister, and Zhao Gao was a distant relative of the imperial clan of Qin. He used to be an official of CRRC and an official of Fuxi, "having been in power for more than 20 years". After the death of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Gao staged a coup in the sand dunes. He conspired with Prime Minister Lisi to forge letters, forcing Fu Su, the eldest son of Qin Shihuang, to commit suicide, and made Hu Hai, the youngest son of the first emperor, emperor, Qin Ershi and doctor. During his tenure, he monopolized power, used power for personal gain, taxed more, and his administration was more harsh.
Zhao Gao started as a eunuch, relying on the favor of Qin Ershi and Hu Hai, and pushed the tyrannical politics of the Qin Dynasty to the peak, thus accelerating its demise. Therefore, Lu Jia sighed: "The criminal law of Qin people will remain unchanged, and Zhao will be destroyed (referring to the demise of the Qin Dynasty)", while Liu Xiang, editor of Warring States Policy, even bluntly said: "The surname (that is, imperial clan, here referring to Zhao Gao) is king, and it is not easy for him to share the same surname, but he will die. Therefore, the king's rule over the world lies in the law, not in the belief in the same surname. "
In addition, Zhao Gao was also a great calligrapher in Qin and Han Dynasties. Xu Shen's Preface to Explaining Words in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Zhao Gao wrote calendar chapters, took the seal of history, or kept it quite." There are 59 calligraphers in Wang Qing's Annals of Ancient and Modern Characters, including Zhao Gao. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Xin called Zhao Gao a "good seal character" in "The Name of Ancient Books". Zhang Tang Huai Guan's Shu Duan was published in Da Zhuan: "Zhao Gao is good at seal cutting. Teach Hu Hai, the youngest son of the emperor. " He is the author of six chapters.