Idioms, sayings, couplets, poems and stories about monkeys

In the fight against the enemy, he advocated the strategy of "Monkey getting into the belly of Princess Iron Fan", and repeatedly eulogized Sun Wukong's fighting spirit with poems, including "The golden monkey rises up with a thousand-strong stick, and the jade moon clarifies thousands of miles." "Today we cheer Sun Dasheng, it's just because the demonic fog has returned" are all famous sayings.

Using monkeys as a metaphor for sentences or rhetoric does not start with Mao Zedong. Idioms, allusions, and proverbs about monkeys He Xiehou's sayings have a long history and are too numerous to mention. For example:

Muhou Erguan "Historical Records of Xiang Yu": "Han Sheng persuaded Xiang Yu to move to Guanzhong, and Yu said: 'I heard that wealth will not return to its hometown, just like clothes and brocade. Walking at night, he burned the palace and the capital Pengcheng. Han Sheng said: "People say that Chu people wear monkeys and wear crowns, and it is true." : 'It's three in the morning and four in the evening.' All the snipers were angry. Said: 'But it's three in the morning and four in the evening.' All the snipers were happy.

The mind is ape, the mind is a horse, this is a Buddhist term. Using the ape to leap and the horse to gallop is a metaphor for the impermanence and changeability of the ordinary mind. , later often used to describe an uneasy mind.

A sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked "The Scholars" Chapter 3: After Fan Jin passed the exam, his phlegm filled his mind, and his father-in-law, Hu Butcher, scolded him: "A sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked person like you should be in trouble." Soaking in urine and taking photos, no matter what, just want to eat the swan's fart."

Killing a chicken to scare a monkey is a metaphor for punishing a person to warn others. Chapter 53 of "The Appearance of Officialdom": "As the saying goes, It’s so good that it’s called “killing chickens to scare monkeys.” If you kill a chicken to scare the monkey, the monkey will naturally be afraid.” As soon as Qin Hui died, Cao Cao was demoted. Li Des sent someone to deliver a letter to Cao. Cao opened it and saw that it was a piece of "A Tree Fell Down by the Hozen".

The Hozen Into the second volume of Ouyang Xiu's "Guitian Lu" in Budai; "[Mei Yaochen] received the order to edit the "Book of Tang" and said to his wife Diao: 'My editing of books can be said to be like a hozen entering Budai.'"

Apes, Cranes, Chongsha "Baopuzi": "Zhou Mu's Five Southern Expeditions, an army was wiped out, the gentleman is ape and crane, and the villain is a worm and sand."

Teaching a monkey to ascend to heaven is a metaphor for instigating others to do bad things. ."The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Jiao Gong": "Don't teach monkeys to ascend to heaven."

These idioms are all vivid, concise and appropriate words, and when used properly can enhance the brilliance of the article.

Related The vocabulary of monkey is added to folk language, which brings a sense of liveliness and playfulness. For example, when a child is said to be naughty, it is "monkey baji"; when a person is said to be smart, "the hair is longer than a monkey"; when someone is advised not to be a teacher, "the family is rich" "If you don't have five buckets of grain, you won't be the Hozen King"; to ridicule stinginess, "A monkey cannot drop dried dates from his hand"; as for "A monkey cannot jump out of the palm of the Tathagata Buddha", it means that the stronger party conveys a threatening message, while the weaker party It expresses helpless emotions. In "A Dream of Jinglou", Jia Baoyu wants to eat the rouge on the mandarin duck's face, but the monkey will not come off. The word "monkey" is used as a noun as a verb, how expressive!

There are more idioms, such as:

Monkey learns to walk - hypocritical (orangutan)

Monkey wears a top hat - pretends to be a civilized person

Monkey steals Peach - hairy hands and feet

Monkey sings opera - think of one thing after another

Monkey wears beard - goes out wherever he wants

Monkey steals melons - Rolling and crawling

Monkey carrying the beam - can't bear it

Monkey eating elephant - luckily he can open his mouth

Monkey fishing for the moon - empty Joy

Monkey King greatly increased the number of such entries:

Monkey King jumped out of the water curtain hole - the fun is yet to come