Those who obey me live and those who disobey me die.
Ming Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the third time. Those who obey me can live, but those who disobey me will die. This sentence has a strong voluntarism and threat, and sometimes it is written as "those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me perish", which is mostly used to threaten the weak by the strong, and also to criticize the reactionary clique's criminal acts of autocratic dictatorship and deprivation of people's freedom and rights.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist and dramatist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty
Under the pine and cypress trees, the grass is barren.
see Zuo zhuan Xiang gong twenty-nine years. Breeding: reproduction, growth. Grass can't flourish under the pine and cypress trees. In 544 BC. King Chu Kang collapsed, Yong Ao ascended the throne, and the prince was surrounded by Ling Yin. At that time, the envoy of the State of Zheng in Chu was surrounded by Prince Lingyin, whose pine and cypress were stronger than the general trend of power, and Yong 'ao, a new monarch whose grass was weaker than the grass under the tree, said a few words. Later generations used ~ to mean that the weak are subject to the strong. In the face of powerful forces, the weak are suppressed and restrained, making it difficult for them to survive and develop. "Guoyu Jin Yu": "In the land of pine and cypress, the grass is not fat" is similar to ~.
Zuo Qiuming, a historian and blind man in the Spring and Autumn Period, wrote Twenty-nine Years of Zuo Zhuan Xiang Gong.
It is always the weak who are biased. British writer Seth Johnson
hopes never to abandon the weak. Famous sayings about the weak Peruvian writer Ri Palma's Death of a Kiss.