If you are born like an ant, you should have the ambition to be a swan. The complete sentence is: If you are born like an ant, you should have the ambition to be a swan. If your life is as thin as paper, you should have an unyielding heart.
It comes from the novel "Guan Policy". It means that life is as weak as grass and grass, but it should have the ambition to fight in the sky like a fly. Bad luck makes our lives as weak as a piece of paper, but even then we must have a fighting spirit that will not bow to luck.
The term "Honghu's ambition" originated from Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty's "Historical Records: Chen She's Family", "Oh! How can the sparrow know the Honghu's ambition!" Such words express Chen She's unwillingness to surrender to fate. arrangements, ambitious ideas. Based on the application of historical allusions and phrases, this powerful statement is composed of ideals and passion.
The idiom story of Hongzhizhi:
Chen Sheng, also known as Chen She, is from Yangcheng. Wu Guang, also called Uncle Wu, was from Yangxia. When Chen She was young, he was hired to help people plow the fields. When he was tired, he ran to the field to rest. He felt puzzled and resentful for a long time. Suddenly, Jipin said to everyone: If any of you get rich in the future, don't do it. Forget about today’s poor friends!
Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard what he said. Someone said to Chen Sheng: "You are now working as a farmhand for others. You are so poor that you don't even own the hoe. How can you get rich?" Chen Sheng let out a long sigh and said, "How can the swallows and sparrows hiding under the eaves understand the lofty aspirations of the geese and swans?"
Chen Sheng has always been resentful of his own experience, but unfortunately Things fell to him again. In July of the first year of Emperor Qin II, the common people living on the left side of Heimen were recruited to garrison Yuyang. There were nine hundred people in their group.
After these 900 people were recruited together, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were designated as camp commanders. They were escorted by two fierce officers armed with swords and rushed towards Yuyang day and night. , for fear of delaying the specified date.
It was the summer rainy season at that time. When they walked to Daze Township in Han County, they encountered continuous heavy rains. Daze Township is close to the Hui River, a tributary of the Zhun River. The terrain is low-lying, and the water has flooded the road, making it impossible to leave. They had to stop and wait for the weather to clear before leaving. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, if you missed the date or did not arrive on time, you would be beheaded.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang calculated that they would not be able to reach Yuyang on time no matter what, and the crime of beheading had been committed. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang discussed what to do. Chen Sheng said: "If you run away now, you will die if you are caught; if you rise up to rebel and seize the world, you will die at most. Instead of waiting to die like this, it is better to die fighting for the world!" Wu Guang asked: "How to fight for the world?"
Chen Sheng said: "The people of the world have suffered enough from the Qin Dynasty. I heard that the second son is the youngest son of Qin Shihuang. He should not be the emperor by rights. His eldest brother, Fusu, should be the emperor. Fusu often advised his father not to kill people. When his father was angry, he sent him to Mengtian to lead troops to defend the city.
Now I heard that the second son had killed the young master Fusu for no reason. The common people only heard that Fusu was a wise man and did not know about his murder. Also, Xiang Yan, the general of Chu, had made many achievements and loved his soldiers.
Some people said that he was a wise man. He is already dead, and some people say that he escaped when the Chu State fell. We Chu people miss him very much. Now if we use the name of Prince Fusu and Chu General Xiang Yan to call on the people of the world to oppose the Second World, we will certainly do it. Many people will rise up and respond."
The two discussed it for a while, and Wu Guang thought that what Chen Sheng said made sense. People were very superstitious at that time. If they wanted the aristocratic family to call on the masses to rebel, in addition to using the names of Fusu and Xiang Yan, they had to use tricks such as pretending to be gods and ghosts to gain the trust of the masses. They decided to give it a try.
The next day, the cook went to the street to buy fish and came back. When he cut the fish open, he found a piece of silk in the belly of the fish. On the silk was written "King Chen Sheng" in cinnabar.
The news spread all of a sudden, and everyone thought it was God's will. It turned out that Chen Sheng was the real one!
At night, someone suddenly saw will-o'-the-wisps flickering brightly and dimly in the bushes on the other side of the ruined temple, and vaguely heard the cry of a fox: "Da Chu Xing, "King Chen Sheng", "Dachu rises, King Chen Sheng".
This incident made everyone scared and strange. How can a fox speak human language? Could it be that he is the Fox Fairy who also knows that Chen Sheng is the real son and has come to report to people! When they got up early the next morning, everyone came to see Chen Sheng. The more they looked at him, the more they felt that he looked really different and that he had the appearance of a destined emperor. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang used superstition to create public opinion among the masses that they would become leaders.
Chen Sheng killed the officials who escorted them, and then called the soldiers together and said: "A man cannot die in vain, he must die with a name. Are princes, generals and ministers destined to die?" ”
In this way, at a critical moment, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang launched an uprising against the Qin Dynasty, "cutting trees into soldiers and raising poles into flags", and ignited the first uprising in Chinese history in Daze Township. The flames of the peasant uprising.