Dance with the devil [qú n mó luá n w incarnation]?
Interpretation: Groups of demons are jumping around. Metaphor is a group of bad guys who run amok in politics.
Example: The era of social unrest and dancing with demons has long passed.
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Ghosts [niú guǐ shé shén]?
Interpretation: a ghost with a head and a snake body. The original metaphor poem is illusory, grotesque and romantic. Now it is a metaphor for all kinds of bad people.
Source: Tang Du Mu's Preface to Li He's Poems: "The whale was thrown; Ghosts and monsters; It is not enough to be illusory. "
During the Gang of Four, many intellectuals were branded as Rightists and ghosts.