"Five Cars" comes from the article "Zhuangzi Tianxia": "Hui Shi is well-informed, and his book is five cars, but his argument is wrong." It is said that Hui Shi, a man in the Warring States period, had many magical powers, but he was chaotic and impure, and his words were inappropriate. The so-called "five cars for his books" means that his library is rich and can hold five cars. Ancient books are made of bamboo slips (pieces), and each piece is engraved with words, which are strung together to form a book. Although the five-car book at that time was not equal to the five-car book now, owning the five-car book collection can also be described as a "learned man."
"Eight fights" is a metaphor used by Xie Lingyun, a poet of the Southern Dynasties, in praising Cao Zhi, a poet of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms. He said, "There is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian (Cao Zhi) monopolizes eight fights. I have to fight, and the world is divided into one battle. " It seems that Xie Lingyun is also quite conceited about his talent. Later, people compared the idiom "gifted scholar and beautiful woman" to a person with brilliant literary talent. Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Alas": "Fu Fei was worried about sitting in the pavilion of knowing heaven and exhausted his eight talents." This poem borrows the allusions of "talented people and beautiful women".
Be endowed with great/extraordinary talents
Shi Yuan: Li Han's Qiu Meng in the Five Dynasties: "Xie Lingyun tasted the cloud:' There is a stone in the world, and there are eight swords. I want to fight a battle, and I have used it all the time. "Song que's name" Stone "is also described here.
Commentary: Xie Lingyun praised Cao Zhi's talent, saying that he only accounts for eight tenths of the world, which is a compliment. Later, people used "talented people" to describe the extremely high humanistic talent. For example, "The Legend of Ghosts": "During the Great Tang Dezong period, there was a scholar named Zhong Mingkui, who was born in Zhong Nanshan and was very talented and knowledgeable." Also known as "eight talents". Li Shangyin's poem "Li Yishan" alas: "Fu Fei is worried about sitting in the pavilion of knowing heaven, exhausting Wang Chen's eight talents."