Chapter 19
This story comes from "Historical Records?"Gaozu Benji".Later, people used "a complete defeat" to describe a failure that was so clean and complete that it reached the point of being out of control.One defeat means once it fails; smearing the ground, here refers to the tragic death of people, and the liver and brains are smeared on the ground.

honey belly sword
Tang Xuanzong was a very accomplished emperor, but his minister Li Linfu, Minister of the Ministry of War, was a wicked, cunning and insidious villain.He used despicable means to please Tang Xuanzong's concubine Yang Guifei, who often said good things about him in front of the emperor, so Li Linfu was very favored by Tang Xuanzong, and his official position was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War and Zhongshuling, and became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty .

Once, Tang Xuanzong appreciated the talent of Yan Tingzhi, a foreign official, and wanted to reuse him.Li Linfu was jealous, so he tried to frame Yan Tingzhi.He deliberately encouraged Yan Tingzhi to pretend to be sick and return to Beijing in order to be appointed.When Yan Tingzhi came back, Li Linfu played Tang Xuanzong again, saying that Yan Tingzhi was seriously ill and could not move.Therefore, Yan Tingzhi was not reused in the end, and he couldn't tell the pain.

Another time, Li Linfu wanted to strike down Li Shizhi, another high official who was fighting for power with him, and pretended to say to him: "There are a lot of gold mines stored in Huashan. If it can be mined, the emperor will be very happy." Li Shizhi listened to Li Linfu's words. , immediately reported to Tang Xuanzong, and asked to send himself to mine.Tang Xuanzong asked for Li Linfu's opinion, and Li Linfu replied: "Huashan is the place where the emperor's aura is concentrated. If gold is dug there, I'm afraid it will be bad for the emperor." Since then, Tang Xuanzong has not trusted Li Shizhi much.

Li Linfu is so insidious and vicious, he has always been cast aside by future generations.Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty commented on Li Linfu's character when compiling "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", saying: "There is honey in the mouth, and a sword in the belly."

Later, people used "mouth honey belly sword" as an idiom to describe some people who speak sweetly but are extremely sinister and vicious in their hearts.

Cliché
During the Three Kingdoms period, there lived a man named Guan Ren who was studious, quick-witted and fond of astronomy since he was a child. At the age of 15, he had already familiarized himself with "Book of Changes" and was proficient in divination, and gradually gained a small reputation.After a long time, it reached the ears of He Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Deng Huan, Minister of the Ministry of Servants.This day happened to be the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. After eating and drinking, the two high officials were bored, so they sent someone to call Guan Ren to do divination for them.

Guan Ren had long heard that these two were the confidantes of Cao Shuang, Cao Cao's nephew, and they had a bad reputation for relying on power and doing mischief.He thought about it for a while, and wanted to take this opportunity to give them a good lesson and destroy their prestige.When He saw Guan Ren, he yelled loudly: "I heard that your divination is very effective. Do the fortune telling for me to see if I can have another chance to be promoted and make a fortune. Besides, I have also dreamed about flies always in the past few nights." It was biting on the nose, what kind of omen is this?"

Guan Ren thought for a while and said: "In the past, the Duke of Zhou was loyal and upright, and he assisted King Cheng of Zhou to build a country, and the country was prosperous and the people were peaceful; now your position is higher than that of Duke Zhou, but there are few people who are grateful to you, but many people are afraid of you. It is not a good omen. According to divination, your dream is also a bad omen!" Guan Ren went on to say: "If you want to turn bad luck into good fortune and ward off disasters, you can only follow the example of Duke Zhou and other great sages. good deed."

Deng Huan listened to it, disapproving, shook his head repeatedly and said: "These are all clichés, not interesting." He Yan's face was livid, and he didn't say a word.When Guan Ren saw him, he laughed and said, "Although it is a cliché, it should not be taken lightly!" Soon, when the new year came, news came that He Yan, Deng Ren, and Cao Shuang were all executed for treason.After Guan Ren knew about it, he said repeatedly: "They ignored the commonplace talk, so no wonder it ended up like this!" The source of the idiom: "Three Kingdoms?"Wei Zhi?Guan Ren Biography" This person was born in Chang Tan (talk).

There is no new meaning in what old scholars often say.It is a metaphor for what you are used to hearing.

Six Secrets and Three Strategies
Idiom Solitaire Lianliankan

Tracing back to the source to learn idioms

Six Secrets and Three Strategies: "Six Secret Secrets" and "Three Strategies": Both are ancient military books.Later, it refers to the book of war and the art of war.

A little bit: slightly: roughly; speckled: stripes.It is a metaphor that the whole can be inferred from the part seen.

Mottled: mottled: the colors are messy; Luli: uneven.Describe the variety of colors.

Leaving the Luan and Farewell to the Phoenix: Luan: A bird like the phoenix in legend.It is a metaphor for the separation of husband and wife.

Phoenix came to Yi: Yi: Rong Yi.The phoenix comes to dance, and its appearance is extraordinary.In ancient times, it was a sign of auspiciousness.

Static appearance and leisurely body: Describes a woman's quiet attitude and elegant appearance.

Xianxiecuncheng: Leisure: precaution, prohibition.Restrain evil thoughts and be honest.

Sincere and fearful: honesty: real, indeed; fearful: fearful; fearful: fearful.Very cautious to the point of fear and uneasiness.

Fear of being discussed by things: things: here refers to people; discussion: discussion.Worried about being criticized by everyone.

There are many discussions: one after another: messy look.The speeches of various opinions are numerous and messy.

Red and green: Fen: scattered; red: refers to red flowers; frightened: scattered; green: refers to green leaves.Scattered red flowers and green leaves.Describe the flowers and trees swaying with the wind.

Green Forest Heroes: Refers to people who gather in the mountains and forests to resist the feudal ruling class.In the old days, it also referred to a group of bandits who gathered people to rob.

Han official prestige: originally refers to the clothing system of officials in the Han Dynasty.Later, it often refers to the ruling system of the Han nationality.

Deportment Wanfang: Deportment: attitude, appearance; Wanfang: many aspects.It is beautiful in all aspects of appearance and posture.

Square head is not bad: square head: common refers to untimely; not bad: stubborn and unruly.Describes a person who is stubborn and stubborn.

Misdeeds are notable: bad: bad; conspicuous: obvious.The bad deeds are very evident.

Works equal to the body: Describes that there are so many works that can be stacked to equal the height of the author.

Battle-tested: Has personally experienced many battles.The metaphor has a lot of history and rich experience.

Trembling and trembling: Zhan Zhan: the look of fear; Jingjing: the look of being cautious.Described as very frightened and trembling slightly.Also described as cautious.

Conscientious: Describes doing things cautiously and diligently.

Industry reserved: Careful look.

Proud to make one's anger: Jin: to boast;Relying on one's own ability, making oneself angry, not humble.

Qiyu Xuanang: Describes a person who is full of energy and has an extraordinary demeanor.

Looking up at the sky: looking up at the sky.Yu refers to looking upward, with a superficial style, unwilling to put down the airs and go deep into the grassroots.

Overwhelming: cover: cover; set: bear.Just as the sky covers everything and the earth bears everything.The scope of metaphor is very broad.It is also a metaphor for deep grace.

Poetry games

thousand

(I.e.

bird

fly

Absolutely

Ten thousand

Diameter

People

trace

Extinguish



boat

Mino

Kasa

Old man

alone



Cold



snow

get out of the maze

Move to the house and forget the children's old book

Read allusions and learn idioms
Gouging
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a farmer's child named Kuang Heng.When he was a child, he wanted to study very much, but because his family was poor, he had no money to go to school.Later, he learned to read from a relative, and only then did he have the ability to read.

Kuang Heng couldn't afford books, so he had to borrow them to read.At that time, books were very precious, and those who had them were unwilling to lend them to others easily.Kuangheng worked part-time for rich people during the busy season of farming, without wages, and only asked them to lend him books.

After a few years, Kuang Heng grew up and became the main labor force in the family.He worked in the fields all day long, and only had time to read some books during his break at noon, so it often took ten and a half months to finish reading a book.Kuang Heng was very anxious and thought to himself: Planting crops during the day, I don’t have time to read, so I can spend more time at night to read.But Kuang Heng's family was very poor and couldn't afford the oil for lighting the lamp. What should he do?

One night, Kuang Heng lay on the bed and memorized the books he had read during the day.Carrying behind his back, he suddenly saw a ray of light coming through the east wall.He stood up abruptly, walked to the wall and took a look, ah!It turned out that what came through the crack in the wall was the neighbor's light.So Kuang Heng thought of a way: He took a small knife and dug a little bigger the gap in the wall.In this way, the light coming through was also increased, so he took advantage of the light to read.

Kuang Heng studied hard like this, and later became a very learned man.

Chiseling the wall to steal light originally refers to Kuang Heng chiseling through the wall in the Western Han Dynasty to attract neighbors to read by candlelight.Later, it was used to describe the family being poor and studying hard.

Castle in the sky
In ancient times, there was a stupid and stubborn rich man.One day, he went to visit another rich man.When he arrived at the rich man's house, he saw that the building was beautifully built, bright and spacious, and he was very envious.He stared blankly at the building and thought to himself: My money is no less than his, why can't I build such a tall and beautiful building?After he got home, he immediately called the local craftsman and asked, "Did you build that magnificent tall building?" The craftsman replied, "I built it." The rich man was very happy and said to the craftsman He said: "You can still build me a tall building like that." The carpenter agreed to the rich man's request.

It didn't take long for craftsmen to start building tall buildings.The rich man was surprised when he saw the craftsmen building houses from the ground, so he asked, "What are you doing?" The carpenter replied, "Building a three-story house." The lower two floors, quickly build me the top third floor." The carpenter couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this stupid remark, and patiently explained to him: "This is impossible. If we don't build the first and second floors The third floor cannot be built." The rich man insisted on his opinion: "I don't want the lower two floors, you must build me the top floor." After hearing about this incident, the local people felt that this The rich man is so stupid and ridiculous.

"Castle in the air" is summarized from this fable, and the original meaning refers to a building or pavilion suspended in mid-air.Later, people used it to describe illusory things or unrealistic fantasy.

Blessing in disguise
On the border of two countries lived an old man.Once, a horse of the old man's house ran away.The left and right neighbors knew about it, and they all came to comfort the old man.The old man was not in a hurry, he said: "It's nothing. Running a horse may not be a bad thing."

After a few days, the lost horse came back by itself, and brought back a thousand-mile horse.The neighbors on the left and right knew about it, and they all came to congratulate the old man.The old man was not happy, he said: "It's nothing. A thousand-mile horse for nothing may cause some trouble." The old man has a son who likes riding horses the most.One day, he went out to play on that thousand-mile horse.

The horse galloped, but he couldn't hold the rein, and fell off the horse, breaking his femur.When the neighbors heard about it, they all came to comfort the old man.The old man was still not in a hurry, he said: "This is nothing. Although the child's thigh bone is broken, it may not be a bad thing." A year later, a war broke out between the two countries.Some young people on the border were taken to serve as soldiers here, and some were taken there to serve as soldiers. Nine out of ten did not come back.The old man's son was spared because he was lame and was not taken away.

"A good man loses a horse" comes from this story, and it is usually used together with "An Zhi misfortune". "Sai" means "border", "Weng" means "old man", and "An" means "how".If a bad thing happens, but things go on and there may be good results, we can use the metaphor of "a good fortune is lost."When someone encounters some misfortune, he usually comforts him with the words "When you lose your horse, you will know the good and the bad".

triumphant
Yan Ying was a famous statesman in the Spring and Autumn Period and a prime minister of Qi State.During the three dynasties of Qi Linggong, Zhuanggong, and Jinggong, he was an official in Qi State, so he can be called "the elder of the three dynasties".It is said that Yan Ying is short in stature, "less than six feet long", that is, less than 1.5 meters, and not outstanding in appearance, but he is resourceful, upright and honest, and is well-known all over the world.

Yan Ying has a coachman, and he is very proud of being able to drive for Yan Zi.Once, he happened to pass by his house in a car, and he acted "high-spirited and very self-satisfied", that is to say, he looked very proud and very proud.His wife was very upset when she saw her husband's appearance through the crack of the door.One day, as soon as the coachman came home, his wife said with a sullen face: "You are driving past the door today, and the way you are proud of yourself is simply disgusting. Look at Yan Ying, who is in the prime minister and has high morals. Although he is tall You are only six feet tall, but sitting in the car, you look stable and humble. But what about you? Although you are eight feet tall, you can only be someone's coachman, and you are so proud, as if you are more amazing than Yan Ying .”

After hearing his wife's words, the coachman admitted his mistake to his wife, and his attitude gradually became more courteous.Yan Ying noticed the change in the coachman, so he asked him why, and the coachman told his wife honestly.Yan Ying was very touched. He felt that the coachman was a man of talent who knew his mistakes and could correct them, so he promoted him to be an official.

The idiom "Yang Yang smug" refers to a person's self-satisfied appearance because he feels too good about himself.

(End of this chapter)

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