Idioms from historical stories

The story comes from "Zuo Zhuan·The Twenty-Two Years of Duke Xi". The idiom "to retreat" means not to fight with others or to take the initiative to give in.

The story comes from "Guoyu·Wuyu". The idiom "in full swing" describes the large lineup and momentum of a certain group of people or things.

The story can be found in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian·Tang Zetian, Queen of the Tang Dynasty in the Second Year of Tianshou". The idiom "asking you to put yourself in an urn" is a metaphor for using someone to correct yourself.

The story comes from "Book of Jin·Wenyuan·Zuo Si Zhuan". The idiom "Luoyang paper is expensive" praises the popularity of outstanding works.

The story comes from "Shishuoxinyu·Jiajue". The idiom "Looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst" is a metaphor for comforting oneself or others with fantasy.

The story comes from "Liezi·Tang Wen". The idiom "high mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for a close friend or close friend, and also a metaphor for beautiful music.

The story comes from "Historical Records: Biography of Mengchangjun". The idiom "chicken crowing, dog robber" refers to humble skills or people with such skills.

The story comes from "Book of Jin Fu Jian Zai Ji". The idiom "every tree and grass is a soldier" describes a nervous, suspicious and frightened mentality.

The story can be found in "Zhuangzi's List of Imperial Bandits". The idiom "explore Li to get the pearl" means that writing an article can closely follow the theme and grasp the key points.

The story comes from "Wen Yu Keyún Dāng Valley Yanzhu Ji" by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty. "Be confident" means being fully prepared before doing something and being very sure of the success of the matter; it also means not panicking and being very calm when encountering difficulties.

The story comes from "Book of Jin·Du Pre-Biography". The idiom "the force is as strong as a broken bamboo" describes the victory of the battle without any hindrance.

The story comes from "Yi Lin Cutting the Mountains" by Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty. The idiom "find things according to the picture" is a metaphor for doing things mechanically according to the old way without knowing how to adapt; it is also a metaphor for finding things according to certain clues.

The story can be found in "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters". The idiom "looking at the ocean and sighing" refers to wanting to do something but not having enough strength and feeling helpless.

The story comes from "Zuo Zhuan·The Fifth Year of Duke Xi". The idiom "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold" refers to the close relationship and interdependence between the two parties.

The story comes from "The Biography of Zu Ti, Book of Jin". ·"Be prepared for danger" comes from Liu Kun's "Old Letters to Relatives", which vividly describes Liu Kun's determination to be ready to kill the enemy and serve the country at any time. Later it was used as an idiom to describe always being alert to the enemy and preparing for battle.

The story comes from "Historical Records: Biography of Jizheng". The idiom "come from behind" often means that the one who comes after can outperform the one who came before. It was quite different from Ji An's original intention when he said this.

The story comes from "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: Self-Knowledge" "Hiding one's ears and stealing the bell" is said to be "covering one's ears and stealing the bell", which is a metaphor for the cover-up behavior of stupidity and self-deception.

The story comes from "Book of Jin·Zu Ti Biography". The idiom "Dance upon hearing the chicken" describes a person who is energetic and promising, and also a metaphor for people with lofty ideals to cheer up in time.

The story comes from "Historical Records·Wei Family". The idiom "holding firewood to put out fire" refers to using the wrong method to eliminate disasters, but the result is that the disasters will expand.

The story comes from "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters". The idiom "Learning in Handan" 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.

The story comes from "Historical Records: The Chronicles of Qin Shihuang". The idiom "referring to a deer as a horse" refers to deliberately confusing right and wrong and confusing right and wrong.

The idiom "waiting for the rabbit" is a metaphor for getting something for nothing, or clinging to a narrow experience without knowing how to adapt.

The peaches and plums do not say anything, but they will make their own mistakes." This idiom comes from "Historical Records: Biography of General Li". It is a metaphor for people who are sincere and strict with themselves. They will naturally move others and be respected by people.

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Idiom entry: Nine cows and one hair (number of views: 553)

Idiom pronunciation: jiǔ niú yī máo

Idiom explanation: Nine cows and one hair are metaphors for being huge. A very small number in quantity, insignificant.

Idiom source: Han Dynasty Sima Qian's "Report to Ren Shaoqing": "If a servant is ordered to be punished, it is like the death of a hair from nine oxen. How is it different from an ant?" ”

Examples of idioms: Don’t boast even one cent of a cow, for pride and complacency will lead to overturning. (Chen Yi’s poem “Feelings of the Book·Qigu·Don’t Extend Your Hands”)

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Idiom story: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (Liu Che) heard that Li Ling led his troops deep into the Xiongnu territory, and his morale was high. At this time,

< p>Many ministers congratulated the emperor for being wise and good at using people. Later, after Li Ling's defeat and surrender, Emperor Wu was very angry. The ministers who congratulated him in turn scolded Li Ling for being useless and disloyal. There was no sound from the side, so Emperor Wu asked him for his opinion on the matter. Sima Qian bluntly said that Li Ling only had five thousand infantry. ?

In the battle, he killed more than 10,000 enemies. He was truly a great general. In the end, he stopped fighting because he ran out of food and arrows and his way back was cut off. Li Ling did not really surrender, but was waiting for an opportunity to serve the country. His achievements could still make up for his failure. Emperor Wu listened to his defense of Li Ling and mocked the emperor's close relative Li Guangli for attacking the Huns from the front. In vain, Sima was moved to prison in anger.

The following year, it was also misreported that Li Ling was training troops for the Huns. Emperor Wu did not clarify the matter, so he killed Li Ling's mother and wife. In order to cater to the emperor, Wei Duzhou of Ting Dynasty falsely accused Sima Qian of framing the emperor, and actually gave Sima Qian the most cruel and humiliating "corruption punishment". Sima Qian suffered such torture, and when he was in pain, he wanted to commit suicide; but then he thought about it, the death of a person with a low status like him

In the eyes of many rich and powerful people, the death is just like "Nine Not only will you not get sympathy, but it will also arouse people's ridicule.

So he determined to endure the humiliation and use his own life and time to complete the writing of the great "Historical Records" arduously and tenaciously.

The ancients said that only those who have great courage have great wisdom, and Sima Qian is such a person. He knew that in his era, the death of a person with no status or fame like him was worse than the death of a dog, so he lived bravely and finally completed the movie< /p>

The unprecedentedly great historical work - "Historical Records".

Sima Qian told his good friend Ren Shaoqing about his conversion of thoughts to promiscuity, and later people relied on what he said in his letter

"Nine oxen perish and a dime" The word is extended to the idiom "nine oxen and a hair", which is used to describe that something or a certain talent is only a part of a very large number, just like a hair on the nine oxen.

Idiom entry: Up and down its hands (number of views: 519)

Idiom pronunciation: shàng xià qí shǒu

Idiom explanation: It is a metaphor for playing tricks and colluding to cheat.

The source of the idiom: "Zuo Zhuan: The Twenty-Sixth Year of Duke Xiang" records: Bo Zhouli deliberately favored the young master Wei, and asked Huang Jie to testify. He also hinted to Huang Jie, raised his hand and said: "Master is a prince." He put down his hand and said: "This son can be the governor of the county outside Fangcheng. Who can get a son?"

Example of idiom: What a loss. "Ingeniously different" is a footnote, which is okay. (Zhu Zijing's "Broad Sea and Sky" and "Ancient and Modern, Chinese and Foreign")

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Idiom story: The twenty-sixth year of King Xiang of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. The State of Chu sent troops to invade the State of Zheng. Since the Chu State was so powerful at that time, the weak Zheng State was really unable to resist. As a result, the Zheng State suffered a defeat, and even Zheng Wangjie was captured by the Chu general Chuan Fengxu. After the war

After the war, the Chu army was surrounded by the younger brother of the King of Chu. He wanted to take credit for the capture of Zheng Jie, saying that King Zheng Jie was captured by him, so he went to Fengxu

and The two men had a dispute, and neither of them wanted to give in. There was no way to resolve it for a while. Later, they asked Boli to be a just person to determine whose credit it was.

Bozhouli's method of resolving the dispute was very fair. He suggested that in order to know whose credit it was, it would be best to ask the captured King Zheng

So he ordered someone to bring King Zheng Jie, and Bozhouli explained the whole story to him. He then stretched out his two fingers, using the upper finger to represent the Chu King's younger brother

Gong Ziwei, and the lower finger to represent Chu General Chuan Fengxu, and then Ask him by whom he was captured. King Zheng Jie hated him very much because he was captured by Chuan Fengxu, so he pointed his finger to indicate that he was captured by the young master Wei. Therefore, Bozhouli judged that this was Gongziwei's contribution.

The idiom "hands up and down" comes from this story; it means cheating in the gameplay and confusing right and wrong.

In today's society, this kind of situation often happens: for example, someone has done something illegal and knows that he deserves it

and cannot escape the fate of being punished; So they bribed secretly, or asked relatives and friends to plead for mercy and protection. As a result, big things turned into small things, and small things turned into nothing, and they still had to go beyond the reach of justice. It can be said that people like this who are involved in the matter, bending the law and committing fraud, are "hands on".

Idiom entry: peach blossom with human face (number of views: 385)

Idiom pronunciation: rén miàn táo huā

Idiom explanation: Describes a man and a woman falling in love when they meet, and then they fall in love. After separation, the man reminisced about the past.

The source of the idiom: Cui Hu of the Tang Dynasty's poem "Inscribed on Nanzhuang of the Capital City": "On this day last year, in this gate, the peach blossoms on the human face reflected each other's red. The human face did not know where to go, but the peach blossoms still laughed at the spring breeze."

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Idiom stories:

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar who went to the capital to take the exam. Once he went to the suburbs in the south of the city and saw a very nice cabin. Find an excuse to walk in and take a look. Unexpectedly, he fell in love with a beautiful girl in the room at first glance. The next year on Qingming Festival, he returned to that house, only to find the door locked. He didn't know where the person had moved. So he picked up a pen and wrote a poem: "On this day last year, in this door, the faces of people and peach blossoms reflected each other's red. I don't know where they went? The peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze." Then he went back.

A few days later, he returned to that place unwilling to give up. Not only was the door not locked this time, but he also saw the girl’s father. The girl’s father sadly told him: “My daughter died because of watching He got lovesick because of the poem he wrote, but he didn't expect that he died because of it.

"After hearing this, he was very sad and couldn't help holding the girl and crying. Unexpectedly, the girl woke up at this time. It turned out that she had just fainted. Soon after, he and the girl, who gradually recovered, married the scholar.