What does this idiom mean?

Xiongzhou fog column, Cai Jun's madness comes from preface to Wang Tengting.

The annotation of "Xiongzhou Fog Column" in "Senior Chinese (Compulsory 4)" published by Jiangsu Education Publishing House is: "Hongzhou buildings are arranged like clouds, and there are Xiongzhou and Dazhou everywhere." The annotation to "Cai Jun Xing Chi" is: "Talented people are driven away like meteors. Cai Jun refers to talented people. " High school Chinese published by People's Education Press. The annotation to "Cai Jun Xing Chi" is: "Outstanding talents are like stars. It describes the number of talents. Cai Jun refers to talents. , so the stars run, so it is called chi. " The annotation and translation of these two sentences in two textbooks, among which the annotation of "Xiongzhou" and "Cai Jun" is

Some people think that it can be said that "Xiongzhou fog train, Cai Jun is crazy" is an intertextual rhetoric, which together is "Xiongzhou Cai Jun fog train Xing Chi", in order to compare Hongzhou City, which is full of talents and rushing about for national affairs. What is the basis of this understanding?

Let's start with Xiongzhou. The Chinese Dictionary explains Xiongzhou as a country with a vast territory and a large population, which occupies an important position. Give three examples, namely: ① Notes on Xie Xiucai and Jian 'an in the Southern Dynasties: "My husband chooses Xiongzhou and looks at the country." (2) The autumn meeting between Tang Wang Bo and Haosihu House in Chuzhou.

The word "fog column" is not included in reference books such as The Chinese Dictionary, and many ancient books are not used. Therefore, to explain this word, we have to start with "fog" and "column" respectively. We know that "fog" is fog, which can be compared to "dense and abundant (Chinese dictionary)"

(1) Kuai Tong said, "At the beginning of the world, a great disaster struck, and the people of the world gathered in clouds and fog."

(2) When Yunxing was about to lead the state, he was promoted to the city, the roaring crowd was driven away by the wind, and the bear family was mixed in the fog. (Biography of Lu Jin)

(3) Those who are more than gold will gather in the fog.

(4) The collection of guest fog and doctrine is all the rage. (Sui Shu Pan Huichuan)

(5) Beowulf brave, warrior sharp words. Get an electric shock and wind gallop, fog and clouds cover, and become cunning and cunning, so as to keep up with the times. (Biography of Cai Yong in the Later Han Dynasty)

⑥ You should choose and dare to fight thousands of troops, so that birds and beasts can be hidden, flags can be armored, horses can be held in your arms, and your record can be lifted. In the morning, the pressure was not arranged, the noise was chaotic, and the fire drum was surrounded. The scene was as busy as a bee and the dust could not be raised. Birds and animals can fight, clear the ice, sweep the whistle, and float the mountains with brine.

⑦ Therefore, Zhou was the highest judge, and Han took the next decision. He came and went, and the clouds dispersed. Strong words are stronger than traffic jams, and weak words cannot be eliminated. (Biography of Sui Shu and Rui Liang)

Where does God come from? This is a kind of spiritual wind. Where did God go? Wandering in the shadows. Immortals come and go, and clouds disperse. ("Song History, Suburb Sacrifice Record")

As can be seen from the above eight examples, "fog" is used to describe a large number of people. The so-called "fog gathering" means that "people on earth" gather (return) like fog. You can make an analogy. The so-called "fog dispersed" means that those people disappeared like fog.

So, what does the "fog train" in Xiongzhou Fog Train mean? The meaning of "fog train" here is similar to "fog gathering" and "fog gathering", and "fog" is a metaphor of many people; "Column" means "dense". Guangya Interpretation 3: "Column, cloth also" and "fog column" mean as many talents as fog. Why didn't Wang Bo choose the common expressions of "fog gathering", "fog gathering" and "fog merging" and imitate them as "fog columns"? This reflects that Wang Bo's diction is exquisite, flexible and accurate. Wang Bo boasts here that HongZhou is full of talented people, not including himself. If he chooses the expression "fog set", he includes himself. Because he himself came to Hongzhou City from other places, he changed the expression "fog set" to "fog column".

When looking for fog as a metaphor for people in Twenty-Five History, the author found an interesting thing. Since the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, there has been no example of using fog to compare people. The above example is a metaphor for the gods in the history of the Song Dynasty. This may be one of the reasons why people ignore using fog to compare people today.

Let's talk about Xing Chi. The Chinese Dictionary contains the word "Xing Chi" and lists three meanings, namely: ① Flying like a meteor; ② Running all night; 3 competition. The third meaning has little to do with the problems discussed in this article, so it will not be described. If the word "Xing Chi" in Cai Jun's Crazy Walk is translated literally, it is just like the annotation in the textbook of Soviet Education. Why did Wang Bo say that? These questions are not easy to answer. So, how to understand the "Xing Chi" here? To solve this problem, we might as well look at the meaning of the word "Xing Chi" used in ancient books.

(1) the nearest Wang Ru disorderly north, Du Tao across the south, the second Zhengrun, Xingchi a state, the rest of the counties, in this collapse. (Biography of Tao Jinshu Kan)

(2) We are sending generals to protect the army and Zang Zhi. And the Emperor Qi Wan came to meet me. (Song Shu Fan Ye Chuan).

(3) Your Majesty wants a hundred officials to wear feather instruments, and the stars are eager to try, and the ministers are stubborn before and after. (Biography of the Five Kings of Song Dynasty)

(4) I will immediately send Ying Xing back to the skeletal center. ("Song Shu Chen Gu Biography")

⑤ When the emperor was in a hurry, he consulted with the king and followed the government in Jing Town. As if he had heard something, he jumped into the sky without sleeping or eating. He walked twice, angry and afraid, and did not stop for a while. (The Story of Emperor Wu of Liang Shu)

⑥ Jumping horse wrapped in grain, flying like lightning, pouncing on pious Liu, chopping with an axe. (Biography of Shu Wei Gao Yun)

⑦ That is to say, Minister Xing Luan was sent to ride 50,000 good horses, and the stars were driven by electricity. (Biography of Shu Weitian and Zong Yi)

⑧ The king sent his life to ask for it, and assisted the prehistoric stars to report it. ("Beiqi Feng Weichuan")

⑨ Jin Yong said, "This thief has no city walls, and only takes bandits as his capital. If he is safe, ants will gather; if he is poor, birds will scatter. If he had used the speed, he wouldn't be in the crowd. If the stars are surprised, he will ride five hundred and be self-sufficient. "

Attending Hu learned of greed and believed it. He led his own tribe, trying his best to drive the six animals forward, hoping to have a common market first. ("Sui Shu Biography Yu Shiqi")

No matter how translated, the words "Xing Chi" in the aforementioned example of 10 are all about running fast, whether it is military, political or other important things. Based on this understanding, it is easy to understand that we can go back to the original text of Preface to Wang Teng-ting to see "Xing Chi". It turns out that Wang Bo's "Cai Jun's infatuation" means that there are people in Hongzhou City. Fan Yi, from Yuwen Xinzhou, temporarily lives in. Ten days holiday, win friends like a cloud; A thousand miles to greet a bride, a wedding. "

Through the above analysis and discussion, we can translate it into "Xiongzhou is full of fog, and handsome talents are everywhere, like Hongzhou City in the fog, with vast territory and abundant resources, and like meteors flying (running towards national politics)."

In this case, some people may think it is out of touch with the language environment in the text. The sentence in front of "Xiongzhou fog column, Cai Jun is crazy" is "the treasure of things, the dragon light shoots the cow to fight the market; Outstanding people, Xu Ru got off Chen Fan's couch ",and the following sentence is" At the turn of the summer solstice, the two sides are in the southeast ". The first clause in these two groups of sentences is about things and places, and the last clause is about people. In the middle, the two clauses before and after the "fog in Xiongzhou, the stars are brilliant" only talk about people, which is not in harmony with the context before and after. In fact, this arrangement of Wang Bo shows his superb and rigorous writing style. Formally, "Xiongzhou fog column" is written in one place, and the content is understood together with the next sentence, just like "borrowing right" in a poem. The form is relative and the content can be understood separately. With this understanding, arts and sciences will naturally follow.

What needs to be added is that, because the two words "Wu Lie" and "Xing Chi" can sometimes be understood as subject-predicate structures and sometimes as biased structures, some people will mistakenly think that "Wu Lie" and "Xing Chi" here are nouns as adverbials. Actually, they are not. "Wu Lie" and "Xing Chi" here are subject-predicate structures, which are used to express metaphors and cannot be understood as nouns as adverbials.