Brick composition phrases:
Eight brick bachelor, grind bricks against the wall, grind bricks into mirrors, throw bricks to attract jade, knock on the door, add bricks and tiles, attract jade bricks, add bricks and tiles, grind bricks to make Mirror
Explanation of idioms
(1) Bazhuanshi: Bazhuan: Eight rows of bricks. Refers to a lazy person
(2) Grinding bricks against the wall: a metaphor for failure to succeed.
(3) Grind bricks into mirrors: Grind bricks into mirrors. Metaphor that things cannot succeed.
(4) Throw bricks to attract jade: Throw bricks away and attract jade back. It is a metaphor for using one's own immature opinions or works to elicit better opinions or good works from others.
(5) Knocking stone: Knocking stone is abandoned after the door is knocked. It is a metaphor for the initial tool for defrauding fame and fortune.
(6) Add bricks and mortar: a metaphor for doing some work and exerting some effort.
(7) Quotes: words of modesty. It is a metaphor for expressing superficial and immature opinions in order to elicit other people's wise opinions.
(8) Add bricks and tiles: Just add bricks and tiles. It is a metaphor for doing some work and exerting some effort.
(9) Grind bricks to make mirrors: Grind bricks to make mirrors. Metaphor that things cannot succeed
Expand the introduction of good ideas
Idiom story:
The poet Zhao Gu of the Tang Dynasty won the great poet Du Mu with his beautiful line "The sound of the flute makes people lean on the building" Because of this, people called Zhao Gu "Zhao Yilou". Although Zhao Gu wrote poems very well, he never started writing easily, so those who like his poems often feel very sorry. ?
Once, people who liked Zhao Gu’s poems happened to get together to drink and talk about poetry. Everyone drank fine wine and appreciated famous poems. Unconsciously, the topic focused on how to make Zhao Gu volunteer more. Write some good poems. ?
At this time, someone said loudly: "Then let's invite him to drink wine and enjoy the flowers, and then compose poems in rhymes according to the rules. If anyone doesn't want to compose poems, he will be fined with alcohol, just like the celebrities of the Jin Dynasty. In that way, drinking and composing poems in Jingu Garden is both elegant and interesting. I think this kind of activity will definitely arouse Zhao Gu's interest in writing poems." Then someone retorted: "This method is not bad, it is interesting and elegant. But have you ever thought that any of us here have such a deep friendship with Zhao Gu that we can invite him to come here to drink with us?”?
Soon, these people found out that Zhao Gu was coming? They went to Yuhang, Zhejiang to visit, so they inferred from Zhao Gu's character that he would definitely go to Lingyan Temple to view the ink of his predecessors. Soon, they came up with a great idea. They spent a lot of money to hire a man named Chang Jian who was good at poetry. He rushed to Lingyan Temple first, where he found a place with unique scenery and left two poems in advance.
Throwing bricks to attract jade
On this day, Zhao Gu came to Lingyan Temple to visit as everyone expected. While admiring the beautiful scenery nearby, he carefully read the poems on the cliffs and the walls of the monk's hall. When he happened to see the two lines of poems left by Chang Jian, he felt that the poems were well written, but the meaning was not complete. So on a whim, he started to finish the poem. After finishing it, he recited it twice with great interest and continued to play. ?
Chang Jian's poems were not as good as those written by Zhao Gu. He used "poor" verses to introduce Zhao Gu's good verses. Later generations called this approach "to attract good works by throwing bricks and stones". In fact, Chang Jian and Zhao Gu were not contemporaries. Their respective activities were separated by more than a hundred years, so the theory of continuation of the poem is not credible. However, because this story is so famous, it has been passed down to this day as a "throwing a brick to attract jade" story.