The Guizhou donkey's skills are exhausted is an idiom, which means that there is no skill in forcing, trying one's best to be ineffective, acting blindly, being unable to treat, being unable to do anything, etc. Below are detailed explanations and examples.
The literal meaning of the Guizhou donkey's skills is exhausted: the Guizhou donkey starves to death; the technology is exhausted. This idiom is usually used to describe a situation in which people are unable to solve the problems they are facing due to lack of sufficient experience, knowledge or skills, such as being unable to cope in a passive situation, or having a blank page in an exam, etc.
The idiom "the donkey in Guizhou has no skills" has a wide range of meanings, including reminding people to pay attention to learning and improving their skills and abilities to avoid falling into the situation of "the donkey in Guizhou has no skills". Tell people to have a spirit of action and innovation, not to stay where they are, and to adapt to environmental changes and challenges. Teach people to face difficulties and failures, learn from them, and ultimately overcome difficulties and give up.
The idiom "The donkey in Guizhou has no skills" is said to have originated from a story told by a famous doctor in the Qi State during the Warring States Period. At that time, the emperor's horse was sick. Several doctors were invited to treat the disease, but they could not be cured. Finally, only a horseman from Guizhou brought his own donkey to treat the horse.
The groom’s spirit has been exhausted, and he has applied all his years of experience and knowledge in raising donkeys to the treatment of the horse, and finally the horse recovered. The doctors were very surprised by this, and one of the famous doctors said: "The people of Qianku are really using a herd of donkeys."
Without formal medical knowledge or experience, they even used donkeys to treat diseases. The method is regarded as a good way to save people, which can describe the situation of poor medical skills and incompetence. The teacher's questions are too difficult, and the students are not very serious in the examination room, and our work team is "unskilled". >
The company encountered economic problems, and the management was "strengthless" and had no choice but to turn to higher-level leaders. This idiom was widely used in literature, calligraphy, painting, etc.
It was used in many ancient times. In novels and operas, we can see many plots in which "the Guizhou donkey is exhausted", such as "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West", etc. Wang Xizhi's "Picture of a Guizhou Donkey" in regular script depicts a Guizhou donkey traveling through mountains and rivers. The difficult journey embodies the Confucian philosophy of "creating things without words, but Tao can express meaning"