Chapter 12
Huo Guang's family was arrogant, extravagant and arrogant. Xu Fu from Maoling once pointed out: "The Huo family will perish. Anyone who is extravagant must be arrogant; if he is arrogant, he must offend the Lord. Offending the Lord is treason. A person in a high position must be arrogant. It will be hated by others, the Huo family has controlled the government for a long time, and it has been hated by many people; everyone is jealous, and they have done big rebellious things, how can it not perish?"

Xu Fu's reminder and warning to the Huo family could not be more clear. Those in high positions who are so powerful and easy to seize power will inevitably reject dissidents. All activities are for their own power, so they will be deeply affected. The jealousy and hatred of colleagues and subordinates, not to mention monopolizing the government and being arrogant and insulting?So Huo Shi must die.Later, when Huo Guang died of illness, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty took power in person. At this time, the members of the Huo family were unwilling to hand over the power. Huo Guang's wife and sons conspired to abolish the emperor and relive the dream that the Huo family was completely in charge of the government.As a result, the conspiracy was revealed and the entire Huo family was killed.

Superfluous
A family sacrificed to their ancestors and rewarded the servants with a jug of wine.The servants saw that there was too little wine in the jug, and it would be boring if everyone took such a small sip. It would be better to let one person drink it and let him drink it to his heart's content.But who should drink it?
Someone thought of a way and said to everyone: "I think this is the way to do it. Let's have a competition to draw a snake. Whoever finishes the drawing first will let the wine in the pot drink." Everyone agreed to do this, and drew snakes on the ground. The snake comes.

One person finished the painting first, and when he saw that others were still drawing with their heads bowed, he said, "You haven't finished the painting yet. Look, I still have time to add four feet to the snake!" He took the jug with his left hand , and the right hand drew on the ground again.Before he had drawn all four feet, someone had also finished drawing the snake, so he snatched the jug from him, drank the wine in a few sips, and said to him, "Snakes don't have feet, why do you give them to me?" How about he added four legs?"

"Addition to the snake" comes from this story.This idiom has two meanings.One meaning is the same as "self-defeating"; if you want to show off your skills, you will spoil things instead.This is the case with the man in the story. He had already drawn the snake, but he didn't drink wine in order to add four legs.

The other meaning is similar to "creating something out of nothing". The snake has no feet, so it is necessary to add four feet. Isn't this superfluous?Therefore, some people use "snake feet" as a metaphor for unnecessary and redundant things.

Chapter Three
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, the people suffered from heavy taxes, heavy corvees and harsh punishments, and rose up one after another.In October 206 BC, Liu Bang led an army into Guanzhong and reached Bashang, which was only a few dozen miles away from Xianyang, the imperial capital of the Qin Dynasty.After only 10 days as the son of King Qin, he surrendered to Liu Bang.Liu Bang accepted the advice of generals Fan Kuai and Zhang Liang, ordered the closure of the palace, and left a small number of soldiers to protect the palace and the warehouses with a large amount of treasures, and then returned to Bashang.

In order to win the hearts of the people, Liu Bang called together the elders and heroes from all counties in Guanzhong, and solemnly announced to them: "The people have suffered from the harsh punishments and harsh laws of the Qin Dynasty for a long time, and they should all be abolished. Now, I have three chapters with the fathers and villagers: first, The murderer is sentenced to death, the second is the crime of wounding, and the third is the punishment for robbery. I came here to eliminate harm for the fathers and villagers, not to harm you, please rest assured." The fathers and villagers expressed their support for the three chapters of the contract .

Then, Liu Bang sent people to the counties and townships to announce the three chapters of the agreement to the people.The people were very happy when they learned about it, and they brought cattle, sheep, wine, and food to reward Liu Bang's army.Liu Bang refused to accept it again and again, saying: "Our army is not short of rations, and we don't want to trouble the people anymore." The people were even more happy, lest Liu Bang would not be king.Due to the resolute implementation of the three chapters of the contract, Liu Bang won the trust, support and support of the people, and finally won the world and established the Western Han Dynasty.

The idiom "three chapters of the agreement" refers to the provision of several clauses to be observed together.Covenant, negotiation, agreement; chapter, refers to the item.

Ingenuity
Mi Youren (named Yuanhui), son of the great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty and the great painter Mi Fu, has a long history of family education. Like his father, he is not only good at writing calligraphy, but also good at painting, and especially loves the works of ancient people.

Once, when he saw Wang Xizhi's authentic calligraphy on someone else's boat, he was overjoyed and immediately offered to exchange a good painting, but the master refused. Others quickly hugged him so that he would not fall into the water.He is good at imitating the paintings of the ancients.When he was in Lianshui, he once borrowed a "Pine Cow Picture" from others to describe it.Later, he actually kept the original copy and returned the facsimile copy to someone. The person didn't realize it at the time, and he didn't come to ask for the original copy until many days later.Mi Youren asked him how he could see it, and the man replied: "In the original book, there is a shadow of a shepherd boy in the eyes of the cow, but it is not in the painting you returned to me."

Mi Youren imitated the paintings of the ancients, and his copies were rarely found to be fake.He often tried his best to borrow ancient paintings to describe; after the copying, he always gave the master both the sample and the real copy, and asked the master to choose by himself.Because of his exquisite skills in imitating ancient paintings, the copies are so authentic that the masters often took the copies back as genuine ones, and thus Mi Youren obtained many valuable authentic ancient paintings.

Mi Youren's behavior of subtly exchanging this imitated fake copy for others' real copy is despised and shameless.That's why some people call his act of defrauding other people's authentic ancient paintings in a clever way "smart stealing".Later people extended it into the idiom "to steal and plunder" from then on, which is used to describe the use of power, status, ability, information, etc., to obtain property that one does not deserve from others through improper methods such as cleverly setting up names. "Crafting" means defrauding; "plundering" means preempting.

Extend in all directions

Idiom Solitaire Lianliankan

Tracing back to the source to learn idioms

Leading in all directions: There are roads in all directions.Describe the transportation is very convenient.Also describe leading to all sides.

Dadi Zhigen: refers to the root is clear and clear.

Deep-rooted: The metaphor has a deep foundation and is not easily shaken.

Standing still: a metaphor for sticking to the old routine and not seeking progress.

Fenghu Yumo: A metaphor for outstanding children.

Mo Xue Fu Shou: Refers to learning without working hard on the fundamentals, and only learning a little superficial.

Inexhaustible benefit: get a lot of benefits, and you can continue to enjoy the results without interruption.

Do your best: Do it to the best of your ability.

The period is not far: for: as; period: date, period.Refers to the approaching of the stipulated or calculated day.

Foresight: Have great vision and great insight.

Literacy and hyphenation: Literacy refers to a little cultural knowledge.

The words are correct and the accent is round: the description is accurate in articulation, and the singing is mellow.

Log Pillow: Using logs as pillows, it is easy to wake up when falling asleep.Describe hard work.

Pillow stream and wash stone: In the old days, it refers to living in seclusion.

Stone sinks into the sea: The stone sinks to the bottom of the sea.There has been no news since then.

The sea and the sky: wide: vast.As vast as the sea, as boundless as the sky.Describe the vastness of nature.It is a metaphor for talking and discussing, etc., without boundaries and without a center.It also describes a bold and uninhibited personality.

Unprecedented and unprecedented: it has never happened before, and it will never happen again in the future.Exaggerated to describe unique.

Worry about the future: Gu: Look back.Worry from behind.It refers to worrying about problems in the rear during the forward process.

Worrying about the country and forgetting the family: worrying about state affairs and not thinking about one's own family affairs.

Everyone knows: Yu: understand; Xiao: know.Every household knows.Describe the well-known.

Dawn with benefits: Dawn: let people know.Make the stakes of the matter clear to others.

Black Sheep: A bad horse that endangers the herd.A metaphor for people who endanger society or the collective.

Horse leather shroud: Horse leather: Horse hide.Wrap the body in horse hide.Refers to heroic sacrifice on the battlefield.

Corpse position vegetarian meal: Corpse position: vacant position, not fulfilling duties; Vegetarian meal: free meal.Empty position and no work, eat for nothing.

Dining wind and bathing rain: Meal: eat; Mu: wash.Feed your hunger with the wind, wash your hair with the rain.Describe the hardships of traveling or living in the wild.

Poetry games

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The road is long and the Taoist soldiers die one after another
Read allusions and learn idioms
fox fake tiger power
A tiger was hungry and was looking for a small animal for a snack. It happened to meet a fox.

Just as the tiger was about to pounce on it, the fox yelled loudly and said, "Humph, you dare to eat me! The Lord of Heaven appointed me to be in charge of wild beasts. If you eat me, the Lord of Heaven will not spare you!" The tiger saw that the fox was thin You are so small, you don't really believe his words, but you can't believe it when you hear it speak so loudly.The tiger was so indecisive that the fox had already seen it.

It sneered and said, "Hey, do you think I'm lying to you? If you really don't believe me, just follow me and watch. Wherever I go, big and small beasts will run away when they see me." The tiger thought: " This really needs to be seen.” So the fox walked ahead in a big way, and the tiger followed closely.The deer and the wild sheep on the mountain, when they saw the tiger following the fox, they all ran away in fright.When the tiger saw it, he thought they were really afraid of the fox, but he didn't expect that it was himself that they were afraid of.

"The fox pretends to be the tiger" comes from this story. "Fake" is "borrowed".Someone who bullies others by virtue of their power can be said to be "a fox pretending to be a tiger".In the story, it is said that the fox took advantage of the tiger's prestige to deceive the tiger in turn, but this idiom was used later without this meaning.

Drunk gold fan
During the reign of Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a doctor named Meng Axe. Because of his excellent medical skills, he was often invited to the palace to help the emperor, concubines, and princes and nobles treat diseases.Because he often came and went in and out of the palace, he was very familiar with everything in the palace, including the buildings in the palace, the utensils displayed, and the gorgeous and luxurious life in the palace, all of which made him secretly envious.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Later, the peasant uprising army led by Huang Chao attacked Chang'an, and Meng Fu fled out of Chang'an in fright, hid in Sichuan, and settled down there.After a long time, he couldn't help being lonely and began to miss the life in the palace.He thought of a way. Based on his memory of the palace, he imitated the appearance of the palace and began to decorate his home.He arranged his home as gorgeously as the palace, and there was a room with better light, and he specially wrapped all the big and small things in the room with layers of gold paper.Whenever the sun shines in through the windows, the utensils in the room are shining with golden light, making it hard to keep your eyes open.A friend of Meng Fu visited his home and was deeply impressed by the unique decoration of his home. After returning home, he said to people: "I only rest in this room for a while, and I feel drunk with gold."

"Golden fan paper drunk" is now often used as "paper drunken gold fan", the original meaning is to let the glittering gold paper make people confused, as if drunk.Afterwards, it is a metaphor for an intoxicating and prosperous environment, and it also describes a luxurious and extravagant life of pleasure.

edge wood for fish
Seeking fish along a tree is a metaphor for a wrong direction and method, impossible to achieve the goal, and an idiom story of futile work:

During the Warring States period, King Xuan of Qi wanted to expand his territory by launching wars, establish prestige, and make himself dominate the world.Mencius went to see King Xuan of Qi, who said to King Xuan of Qi, "I heard that you want to conquer the world by war, which is absolutely impossible. If you want to make all the world submit to you, you must first govern your own country well and implement benevolent government. , so that officials, farmers, businessmen, and even travelers from all over the world are willing to come to you. If you use force to conquer, it is like 'seeking fish against a tree', and it will not achieve your goal at all."

Here, Mencius, at the level of a superb psychoanalyst, expressed what King Xuan of Qi was thinking, and then categorically denied it.Tell him it's a wild card.

Why did Mencius say this?Because King Qixuan's direction was wrong and he could not achieve his goal. Not only that, but what was even more terrifying was that it might bring about the opposite and more serious consequences.The meaning of "seeking fish from wood" is actually easy to understand. "Yuan" here means along and along, and "mu" refers to trees; "seeking fish from wood" means climbing up trees to find fish.How can there be fish on the tree?So this idiom is used as a metaphor for wrong direction, or violation of objective laws, and of course the result cannot achieve the goal.

The principle of seeking fish from a tree is not esoteric, it can be understood as soon as it is said, even self-evident.The solution is not difficult, as long as we rationally consider the overall situation and a long-term perspective, we can avoid it.But in real life, many people climb up trees without paying attention.

Yu Gong Yishan
Yugong Yishan is recorded in Liezi?An ancient story in "Tang Wen Pian".

(End of this chapter)

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