When Cao Rui, the grandson of Cao Cao, became emperor, he was eager to find an "accounting person" and asked Lu Yu, the minister, to recommend someone with real skills, and warned him that the recommender should not only look at his reputation, which is like a cake painted on the ground. If he is hungry, don't eat it. Lu Yu carefully selected Zhong Shulang for Cao Rui.
When a rising star was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Chen showed his talent at a young age and was highly praised by relatives and friends. His uncle Fan Ning was a famous scholar at that time, and he also attached great importance to Chen Wang. When the famous scribes visited him, he always asked Chen Wang to be present for reception. On one occasion, Chen Wang visited his uncle and met Zhang Xuan, who was famous earlier than him. My uncle asked them to talk. Zhang Xuan has long heard that Wang Chen is very interested and wants to talk to him. He is older than Wang Chen. Naturally, he hoped that Wang Chen would say hello to himself first and just sit up straight and wait. Unexpectedly, Wang Chen is very disdainful of Zhang Xuan's appearance. He also sat silently, saying nothing. Seeing him like this, Zhang Xuan can no longer put down the shelf. He sat for a while and left unhappily. Afterwards, Fan Ning blamed Chen Wang and said, "Zhang Xuan is an outstanding talent in Wuzhong. Why don't you talk to him? Wang Chen replied haughtily, "If he really wants to associate with me, he can come and talk to me. Hearing this, Fan Ning praised his nephew and said, "You are so romantic and elegant. You are really an outstanding talent." . Chen Yu said with a smile, "Without an uncle like you, how can there be a nephew like me?"
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led an army to attack Wu Dong, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces against Cao Cao. Zhou Yu was narrow-minded and jealous of Zhuge Liang, so he designed Zhuge Liang to build 100 thousand arrows in three days. Zhuge Liang borrowed 20 boats and scarecrows from Lu Su and set sail for Cao Ying in the night fog. Cao Cao led the army to shoot arrows at the scarecrow desperately, and successfully completed the task.
Once upon a time, a wise man heard that eating pears is good for teeth, but bad for spleen, but eating dates is just the opposite. He thought for a long time and finally came up with a way to kill two birds with one stone, that is, just chew pears and swallow dates, so as not to hurt his teeth and spleen. People laughed at him for swallowing dates.
A bookworm read the story of cicada slough from an ancient book and believed it. He searched everywhere, picked all the leaves from the cicada's hiding place, took them home to cover his face for experiments, and asked his wife if she could see him. The wife said angrily that she couldn't see. He took this leaf and stole it in the street. After being arrested, he said, "I'm blind. Can you see it? "
Once upon a time in the state of Qi, there was a man who was timid and a little neurotic. He often thinks of some strange questions, which makes people feel confused. One day after dinner, he sat in front of the door with a big cattail leaf fan to enjoy the cool, and said to himself, "What should I do if the sky falls one day?" Is it not wrong that we have no way out and will be crushed to death alive? "Since then, he has been worried about this problem almost every day. His friends are worried about him when they see him in a trance and haggard all day. However, after everyone knew the reason, they all came to persuade him and said, "Dude! Why bother yourself about it? How can the sky fall? I mean, even if it does collapse, you can't solve it by yourself. Let's relax! "But, no matter what others say, he doesn't believe it, and he will always worry about this unnecessary problem. According to the above story, people later extended this idiom to "worrying about the sky." Its main significance is to wake people up from worrying about some unrealistic things. It has roughly the same meaning as "much ado about nothing"
Cross the rubicon One year, 300,000 troops of the State of Qin surrounded the Julu (now Pingxiang County, Hebei Province) of the State of Zhao (not the original State of Zhao), and the Prince of Zhao asked Chu Huaiwang (not the original King of Chu) for help overnight. Chu Huaiwang was appointed as the general and Xiang Yu as the lieutenant, and led 200,000 troops to save Zhao. Who knows that Yi Song heard that Qin Jun was very powerful, so he stopped halfway and stopped moving forward. When there was no food in the army, the soldiers cooked vegetables and beans for dinner, and he didn't care. He just throws his own party and eats and drinks. This can make Xiang Yu angry. He killed, became a "fake general" and led troops to save Zhao.
Xiang Yu sent his troops first, cutting off the road of grain transportation in Qin Jun; He personally led the main force across the Zhanghe River to rescue the giant deer.
After all the Chu troops crossed the Zhanghe River, Xiang Yu gave the soldiers a full meal, each with three days' dry food. Then he ordered: the boat crossing the river (called the boat in ancient times) was sunk into the river, the frying pan (called the kettle in ancient times) was smashed into pieces, and the nearby houses were set on fire. It's called cross the rubicon. Xiang Yu used this method to show his determination to make progress and win.
The soldiers of the Chu army saw that the coach was so determined that no one was going to go back alive again. Under the personal command of Xiang Yu, they fought a life-and-death battle with Qin Jun. After nine consecutive charges, Qin Jun was defeated. Some leaders of Qin Jun were killed, some were captured and some surrendered. This battle not only solved the siege of Julu, but also beat Qin Jun out of the water. Two years later, the Qin Dynasty perished.
After that, Xiang Yu became a real general, and many other armies were under his command, and his reputation spread all over the world.
During the Warring States Period, a minister named Zhuang Xin of the State of Chu said to King Xiang of Chu one day, "You are in the palace, with Zhou Hou on your left and Xiahou on your right; When you went out, Yan Lingjun and Shou Jing Jun followed you all the time. You and these four people are very particular about luxury and debauchery. Regardless of national events, Ying (Chu capital, in the north of jiangling county, Hubei Province) will be in danger! "
King Xiang was very unhappy. He scolded angrily, "Are you crazy? Deliberately saying these insidious words to confuse people? "
Zhuang Xin replied unhurriedly: "I really think things must come to this, and I dare not deliberately say that Chu has any misfortune." If you always cherish this man, Chu will surely perish. Since you don't believe me, please allow me to hide in Zhao and see what will happen. "Zhuang Xin lived in Zhao Guocai for five months, and the State of Qin invaded Chu and was forced into exile in Yangcheng (now northwest of Xixian County, Henan Province). Only then did I feel that Zhuang Xin's words were good, so I quickly sent someone to get Zhuang Xin back and asked him what he could do. Zhuang Xin said sincerely: "I've heard that it's not too late to think of hounds when I see rabbit teeth;" "It's not too late to mend. ……"
In the Spring and Autumn Period, after Duke Mourn of Jin became a monarch, he wanted to revive the prestige of the State of Jin and rule the vassals like his ancestor Jin Wengong. At this time, Zheng was a small country, allied with Jin for a while, and then surrendered to Chu. Duke Xiang of Jin was very angry. In 562 AD, the armies of Song, Lu, Wei and Liu 1 1 were assembled to send troops to attack Zheng. After Jian Gong, a neighboring country, surrendered, it gave Jin a lot of gifts, including 100 chariots, several musicians, a batch of precious musical instruments and 16 women who can sing and dance. Jin Wengong was very happy and gave half of these gifts, saying, "You advise me to make peace with Rong and Di and pacify the countries in the Central Plains;" In the past eight years, we have called the governors of various countries to join the alliance nine times. Now our relationship with other countries is as harmonious as a beautiful music. Zheng Guo sent so many gifts for me to share with you! " Jiang Wei said: "It is a blessing for our country to get along well with Di and Rong. Your majesty became an ally of the central plains governors. It is because of your talent that my contribution is insignificant. However, I hope your majesty can think more about the future of some countries when enjoying happiness. The history book says: "When you are stable, you should think about the possible dangers in the future;" "If you think about it, you will be prepared. If you are prepared, there will be no disaster. I would like to use these words to remind your majesty! "
There are Embattled (Xiang Yu), Smelling Chicken Dancing (Zu Ti), Apologize with a humble apology (Lian Po), The Cliff Belongs to Zhao (Lin Xiangru), Reward Yong (Gou Jian, the King of Yue), Men are Men (Gou Jian), A Golden Word (Lv Buwei) and so on.
You can look it up in the idiom dictionary.