# Infant and Child # Introduction Idioms are the accumulation of history. Behind every idiom there is a far-reaching story. Below are 5 classic ancient four-character idiom stories shared by None. Welcome to read and reference!

1. Classic ancient four-character idiom story

Diligence can make up for weakness

During the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was transferred to the governor of Suzhou, and Suzhou was a state in the southeastern region of the Tang Dynasty. Local affairs Complex.

After taking office, Bai Juyi declined all banquets and concentrated on handling government affairs in order to handle the heavy county affairs. He quickly became familiar with the local situation and rectified the administration.

You know how much Bai Juyi indulged in drinking and music when he was in charge of the Eastern Capital, but when he was the governor of Suzhou, all these pastimes gave way to serious business.

Because he believes that he is born clumsy and can only make up for it through hard work.

Bai Juyi served in Suzhou for one year. Although he did not last long, due to his people-oriented approach to administration and lenient punishments, the people of Suzhou received light corvees and small taxes, and the benefits of recuperation and recuperation were deeply loved by the people of the state. of love.

So when he left Suzhou by water with a breeze in his sleeves, the hard-working and simple people of Suzhou saw him off on the other side. It presents a grand and touching scene of worshiping at the water for a moment and being reluctant to leave as the boat travels ten miles.

Diligence can make up for weakness, which means that acquired diligence can make up for congenital deficiencies.

2. Classic ancient four-character idiom story

Learning to walk in Handan

It is said that two thousand years ago, there was a young man in Shouling of Yan State who had no worries about food. In terms of clothing and appearance, he can be considered a middle-class talent, but he just lacks self-confidence. He often feels inferior and inferior to others for no reason - his clothes are good, his food is delicious, and his posture and appearance are also elegant. He learns everything he sees, and throws away the same things he learns. Although he tries new tricks, he still can't do one thing well, and he doesn't know what he should look like. His family members advised him to correct this problem. He believed that his family members were too involved. Relatives and neighbors said that he was a bully and a stick, but he didn't listen at all. As time went by, he actually doubted whether he should walk like this. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that his walking posture was too stupid and ugly. One day, he met a few people chatting and laughing on the road, and he only heard someone say that the Handan people have beautiful walking postures. When he heard this, he hurried forward and wanted to find out. Unexpectedly, when those people saw him, they laughed and walked away. How beautiful is the walking posture of Handan people? He couldn't imagine it, and this became his obsession. Finally one day, without telling his family, he went to distant Handan to learn to walk. As soon as he arrived in Handan, he felt that everything was fresh and dazzling. When he sees a child walking, he feels lively and beautiful, and learns from it; when he sees an old man walking, he feels steady, and learns from it; when he sees a woman walking, swaying in various ways, he learns from it. Just like that, after only half a month, he couldn't even walk anymore, and all his travel expenses were spent, so he had to crawl back. The story comes from "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters".

The idiom "Handan learning to walk" refers to imitating others mechanically. Not only will you fail to learn from others' strengths, but you will also lose your own strengths and abilities.

3. Classic ancient four-character idiom story

Three Moves of Meng’s Mother

Mencius was a great thinker during the Warring States Period. Mencius lost his father when he was young, so he relied on his mother, Ni, who spun and weaved day and night to shoulder the burden of life. Ms. Ni is a hard-working and knowledgeable woman. She hopes that her son will improve his studies and become a talented person as soon as possible.

Once, Meng’s mother saw Meng Ke fighting with a neighbor’s child. Meng’s mother felt that the environment here was not good, so she moved.

Another day, Meng’s mother saw a big stove in the neighbor’s blacksmith’s house, and several oily master blacksmiths were forging iron. Meng Ke was playing in the corner of the yard, using bricks as an anvil and wooden sticks as hammers, imitating the movements of the blacksmith. Mother Meng thought that the environment here was still not good, so she Moved.

This time she moved her family to the wilderness. One day, Mencius saw a funeral procession wearing mourning clothes, crying and carrying a coffin to the cemetery. A few strong young men dug out the grave with hoes and buried the coffin. He found it quite amusing, so he imitated their actions, dug up the ground with branches, and seriously buried a small branch as a dead person. It wasn't until Meng's mother came to find him that she took him back home.

Meng’s mother moved for the third time.

This time, there was a school next door to our home, where a teacher with a gray beard taught a group of students, large and small. The teacher led the students to read every day while shaking his head. His drawling voice was like singing, and the naughty Meng Ke also started reading with his head shaking. Meng's mother thought her son liked studying, and she was very happy, so she sent Meng Ke to school.

But one day, Meng Ke skipped school. Meng's mother was heartbroken when she found out. When Meng Ke came back from playing enough, Mother Meng called him to her side and said, "You play truant and don't study. You are like cut cloth. You can't weave it into cloth. If you can't weave it into cloth, you have no clothes to wear. You don't do well." If you study, you will never become a talent." He picked up the scissors and cut all the cloth to be woven on the loom with a bang.

Meng Ke was so frightened that he froze. This time, Meng Ke was truly shocked. He thought seriously for a long time, finally understood the truth, and began to concentrate on reading. Because of his talent and intelligence, he later studied specifically with Zisi, the grandson of Confucius, and finally became the main representative of Confucianism.

4. Classic ancient four-character idiom story

Perseverance

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the academic field was quite active and famous people emerged in large numbers. At that time, there was a philosopher and educator Xunzi, whose extensive knowledge and profound insights won the admiration of later generations. He wrote many prose works, of which "Encouraging Learning" can be regarded as a representative work.

In the chapter "Encouraging Learning", Xunzi proposed that unremitting learning can increase people's talents and change their temperament. He specifically pointed out that learning must be persevering and not give up halfway.

There will be dragons lurking; as long as you do good deeds a lot, you will definitely develop a kind of virtue. In this way, it will not be difficult to fully possess the ideological quality of a sage.

"The important thing here is. Yes, we must not underestimate the accumulation of bits and pieces. If a person does not walk step by step, how can he travel a thousand miles? Without the accumulation of water in small rivers, how can big rivers and seas be formed? If a thousand-mile horse only jumps once, it cannot even cover the distance of ten steps; And the inferior horse can go very far if it walks for ten consecutive days. The success of the latter lies in never stopping to move forward!

“If a person is lazy and carves wood a few times and then stops, he will continue to carve even the dead wood; If you keep working hard, you will be able to carve gold and stone into utensils! In short, if you want to succeed, you must continue to work hard and concentrate on it!"

These words of Xunzi have become wise sayings and have been passed down to this day.

5. Classic ancient four-character idiom story

Mending the enemy's situation

This story comes from the "Warring States Policy". During the Warring States Period, a minister of Chu State named Zhuang Xin said to King Chu Xiang one day: "When you are in the palace, the Marquis of Zhou is on your left and the Marquis of Xia is on your right; when you go out, Lord Yanling and Lord Shouhe are always together. It’s up to you. You and these four people specialize in luxury and pleasure, regardless of national affairs, and Ying (the capital of Chu, in the north of Jiangling County, Hubei Province) must be in danger!"

King Xiang heard this! , very discourteous, scolded angrily: "Are you stupid? Are you deliberately saying these sinister words to confuse people's hearts?"

Zhuang Xin replied calmly: "I really feel that something is certain. If you have reached this point, you don’t dare to deliberately say that Chu is in trouble. If you continue to favor this person, Chu will definitely perish. Since you don’t believe me, please allow me to hide in Zhao and see what happens. How?" Zhuang Xin had only lived in Zhao for five months. As expected, Qin sent troops to invade Chu, and King Xiang was forced to go into exile in Yangcheng (now northwest of Xixian County, Henan). Only then did he feel that Zhuang Xin's words were good, so he quickly sent someone to find Zhuang Xin and asked him what he could do. Zhuang Xin said sincerely: "I've heard that it's not too late to think of a hound when you see a rabbit's teeth; when a sheep runs away, It’s not too late to mend the sheepfold after it falls..."

This is a very meaningful story. If you only know how to enjoy yourself, but don’t know how to do things, the result will inevitably be a tragic failure. undoubtedly. The idiom "make up for the situation before it is too late" is based on the two sentences above. It expresses the meaning that after a mistake is made in handling something, it is not too late to save it as soon as possible. For example, a businessman makes a mistake in estimating the development of things, advances rashly, and falls into failure.

But he was not discouraged, and patiently thought about the matter again, learned from this mistake, and believed that it was not too late to "make up for it" and start from scratch!

The meaning of the allusion of "making up for the loss" is: fu: escape, loss; prison: a pen for livestock. It is not too late to repair the sheepfold after the sheep have escaped. It is a metaphor that after something goes wrong, finding a way to remedy it can prevent further losses.