Idioms about snakes

1, gild the lily

Interpretation: Metaphor is not only useless, but also inappropriate. It is also a metaphor for fictional facts.

Source: "The Warring States Policy Qi Ce II": "There are not enough snakes, but the child is safe?"

Interpretation of the source: A snake has no feet, how can it draw its feet?

2. come clean.

Explanation: refers to being insincere and perfunctory to people.

Source: "Zhuangzi Emperor": Tiger said: "I didn't get up and showed it to my family. I pretended."

Interpretation of the source: Liezi's master Huzi fought against Zheng Guo's sorcery Ji Xian, but Huzi confused Ji Xian with fake tricks, and Ji Xian escaped.

3, the pen goes long snake

Interpretation: With a stroke of the pen, the dragon and snake dance together. Describing calligraphy as vivid, imposing and free and easy also means that calligraphy is fast and energetic.

Source: Tang Libai's "Cursive Song": Always seeing dragons and snakes, the left side is shocked.

Interpretation of the source: Describe the vivid and magnificent calligraphy.

4, mixed dragon and snake

Interpretation: Metaphor means that good people and bad people are mixed together.

Source: Dunhuang Bianwen Anthology Wu Zixu Bianwen: "Loneliness is unbearable. Seeing this difficulty, soap silk (white) is difficult to distinguish, and dragons and snakes are mixed. "

Source interpretation: I can't stand it. Seeing this difficulty, soap silk (white) is difficult to distinguish, and dragons and snakes are mixed.

5. Birds scare snakes

Interpretation: Like a bird in the forest, a frightened snake in the grass.

Source: Fa Shu Yuan: In the Tang Dynasty, a monk explained the good cursive script of Yalou, and once wrote a couplet: A bird into the forest scares the snake into the grass.

Interpretation of the source: Calligraphy should be written as smoothly as a bird in the forest and a frightened snake in the grass.

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