1. Humble coins: humble etiquette; thick coins: thick coins and silk. It is a metaphor for the solemnity and earnestness of hiring personnel.
2. It must not be easy: the original meaning is that it will not change once it is established, and the later meaning is correct and cannot be changed.
3. Stealing a vegetarian meal: It used to mean that senior officials were full all day long and had no intention of doing anything. Later it was also used as a word of modesty.
4. Fishing and traveling place: the place where you lived in your childhood, usually only your hometown.
5. There is a reason for holding: the opinions and opinions held have a certain basis.
6. Three animals and five tripods: originally described as abundant sacrifices. Now describes the food as rich and delicious.
7. Officials of the city: It used to refer to the people in the city.
8. Bullshit: It is a metaphor for not knowing how to measure the importance of doing things. Therefore, what is gained cannot compensate for what is lost.
9. Touhui Jilian means that taxes are harsh and heavy.
10. Work hard: a metaphor for being energetic and high-spirited.
11. Small eyes and thin skin: a metaphor for taking advantage of others.
12. Pretend: refers to speaking kindly and treating someone kindly.
13. Follow orders like a stream: describes absolute obedience to orders. (This means that the people of the three armies follow orders like a stream, and die without turning around.)
14. The dry city of the country: weapons and tools used to defend the enemy, a metaphor for the defense of the country.
15. An expert knows his fate: An open-minded person is content with his fate.
16. Chicken and wild heron: a metaphor for different calligraphy styles, and also a metaphor for people’s love of novelty as opposed to ordinary things.
17. Don’t deceive yourself in the darkroom: (Don’t deceive yourself) Don’t do shameful things in a place where there are no people.
18. Not at all unhappy: There is no mistake in the metaphor.
19. Poor literati: People who like to play with words have bad conduct and behavior.
20. Xiaqi Yisheng: Xiaqi: a respectful attitude: Yisheng: a pleasant voice. Describes a soft voice and a respectful attitude. ("Book of Rites·Nei Principles": "If your parents have a fault, you will feel happy and remonstrate with a gentle voice.")
21. Short hair but long heart: old and resourceful.
22. An eyebrow and an eye: the same person.
23. Unique lungs and intestines: a metaphor for people with bad motives. Deliberately make some unusual and strange claims.
24. Plow the court and sweep holes: completely destroy the enemy.
25. Lunyin Buddha’s words: It means words that cannot help but disobey.
26. Almost no survivors: There is almost nothing left.
27. Biting nails and chewing iron means having a strong will.
28. A rat drinking from a river: a metaphor for extremely limited needs. (Zhuangzi·Xiaoyaoyou): "A rat drinks from the river, but its belly is full.")
29. The turtle is tired of not telling: It is a metaphor for something that is very effective, but it will fail if it is overused.
30. The crime of inappropriate punishment: the punishment is not commensurate with the crime. (Reward not merit)
31. Antelope hangs its horns: The artistic conception of many metaphorical poems in the old days is transcendent. (The antelope hangs its horns, and there is no trace to be found.)
32. Lin toes are auspicious: In the old days, they were used to congratulate the birth of a child.
33. Misrecognition of facial features: describing ignorance and shallowness.
34. Ignorance Jiji: originally described as insatiable, it also means a lot. (An insatiable heart does not know Ji Ji.)
35. Ji Bu Yinuo: Yu Ji has credibility and never breaks his promise.
36. Han official dignity: originally referred to the clothing system of officials in the Han Dynasty, but later often referred to the ruling system of the Han Dynasty.
37. Reading from my father: I only know how to study hard, but I don’t know how to use knowledge to adapt.
38. The thoughts of cloud trees: a metaphor for the longing for a friend after being apart.
39. As old as new: refers to making friends who cannot understand each other. Even though it has been a long time, it is still as if they just met.
40. People in the cold: It means that even a slight cold can harm a person's body. It also means that people cannot withstand slight blows when they are old or in trouble.
41. Lonely minister and evil son: a metaphor for people who encounter hardships.
42. Talk about Xiang when meeting people: (Xiang refers to Tang poet Xiang Si) It means bragging and saying good things about someone or something everywhere.
43. Secretly hiding in Chencang: a metaphor for achieving a goal by creating an illusion, and also a metaphor for adultery between a man and a woman.
44. From the cliff but back: farewell speech in the old days.
45. Qi Qi Ju Er: Ju: both, all. The way they love each other. Refers to brotherly love.
46. Cun Yang Chibi: It is said that time is precious.
47. Five winds and ten rains: good weather and good weather.
48. Winning in times of trouble: Doing extravagant things in difficult times with hanging hope: looking forward wholeheartedly.
49. Corpse dwelling in residual energy: When a person is about to die, it also means that a person is depressed and has nothing to do.
50. Entertaining relatives in colorful clothes: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Laizi was a filial piety, and when he was seventy years old, he dressed up in colorful clothes and pretended to be a child to make his parents laugh. Later, it was used as an allusion to filial parents.
51. Cat and mouse sleep together: the top and bottom work together in confusion, and officials protect their subordinates from doing bad things.
52. Treacherous behavior: Demented on the outside but cunning on the inside.
53. Menqiangtaoli: Calling other people’s students.
54. Don’t disobey the good words of virtue: Do not disobey the good words of others.
55. Picking one’s ears and acting as a trick: It means that one is very eager to achieve the goal.
56. Run Yijuechen: describes walking extremely fast, and also describes talents that are outstanding and unmatched.
57. Baiyun Qinshe: a metaphor for missing your parents.
58. Famous trade and real trade: trade: Qi et al; Yi: change. The names are similar, but the essence is different.
59. Niu Yi Duo Weeping: describes the couple living together in poverty.
60. Titled Hua Peishi: Describes that the form and content of the article are perfect. It also describes the flowering and fruiting of vegetation.
61. Smoke can’t come out and fire can’t come in: describes a person who is slow-tempered and doesn’t like to talk.
62. Throwing a stone into water/Irreconcilable acquaintance: a metaphor for getting along with each other.
63. Deep plowing and easy farming (nòu): plowing deeply and carefully, weeding in time, metaphor for precision farming.
64. Cuàn (cuàn) means only paying attention to small things and not looking at the big picture.
65. Tired (lěi): a metaphor for useless words.
66. Carved clam (hān) carved clam (gé): exquisite and delicious food.
67. To drive fish out of the abyss (wèi): It is a metaphor for not being able to unite people and driving some people who could have been united to the enemy side.
68. Mianfuyu 榇 (yú chèn): 榇, coffin. The ceremony of surrender of an ancient monarch after defeat.
69. The sun rises and the moon is constant (gèng): It is a metaphor for when things are prosperous. In the old days, it was often used as a blessing.
70. Ji (jǐ) Hungry Ji (jǐ) Drowning: In the old days, it was used to describe a person in power who cares about the suffering of the people. It also metaphorically expresses deep sympathy for the suffering of others and takes it as one's duty to relieve the suffering of others.
71. After getting the fish and forgetting the trap: it means forgetting the things that depended on success after success.
72. Indifferent: turning one's arms without looking back, meaning to ignore someone.
73. Dumen Quesao: close the door, no longer clean the courtyard path, screen out guests and thank them, stay clean and comfortable.
74. Eguan Bodai: Originally the attire of an ancient scholar-bureaucrat, it was later used as a metaphor for wearing a formal dress.
75. Participate in the grand ceremony: Participate in that grand ceremony in person, or experience that grand occasion in person.
76. Observation and understanding of things are very narrow and one-sided.
77. Slow but not urgent: Describes a method that is too slow to be used in time.
78. Appreciate with beat: Appreciate with beat, describing the appreciation of other people’s qualities, poetry or art.
79. Hungry eagle and hungry tiger: a metaphor for cruelty and greed.
80. Chicken-worm gains and losses: a metaphor for insignificant and subtle gains and losses.
81. The chicken is flying and the dog is running away: describes being confused due to fear.
82. Bits and pieces: describes trivial things of little value.
83. To take advantage of the opportunity: It originally refers to taking advantage of high morale to fight in time, but later it generally refers to seizing favorable opportunities and taking timely action.
84. Glue pillars and drums: a metaphor for being stubborn and rigid and unable to be flexible.
85. The sound of footsteps in the empty valley: a metaphor for rare news, words or things.
86. Groundless: It means that news and legends are not without reason.
87. Wolf and pig are running around: wolves and pigs are running around, which is a metaphor for groups of bad guys running around.
88. Deviation: a metaphor for departing from dominant ideas and traditions.
89. Walking on thin ground in a dark place: a metaphor for caution turning into fear.
90. Flowing gold stone: can melt gold and stone, describing extremely hot weather.
91. Can’t see eyelashes: Can’t see one’s own eyebrows, which means lack of self-knowledge.
92. Without looking into the garden: describes immersing oneself in reading.
93. Confused by five colors: Describes the many and varied colors and cannot see clearly. It is a metaphor for things being complicated and difficult to distinguish.
94. Mi Zhu Xin Gui: Rice is like pearls and firewood is like osmanthus wood. It describes that things are expensive and life is difficult.
95. Once upon a time: a metaphor for reports that have lost their news value or things that have lost their timely function.
96. Thousands of gold to buy bones: a metaphor for the desire to seek talents.
97. Being poor leads to work: In the old days, it was said that the less satisfied the literati were, the better the poems they would write.
98. Too weak to bear clothes: describes a person who is so thin that he cannot even bear the weight of clothes.
99. Ruan is shy: indicates financial difficulties.
100. Sitting on clouds and mist: a metaphor for being confused and unable to discern the truth.
101. Like an ant attached to a mutton: It is a metaphor for people’s behavior of following others’ influence and pursuing fame and wealth. It is also a metaphor for many like-minded people pursuing a certain evil.