During the Warring States Period, the army of the State of Qin surrounded Handan, the capital of Zhao, and the situation was very critical.

The monarch of Zhao, Xiao Cheng, sent Ping Yuanjun to Chu for help. Pingyuan intends to lead 2 public visitors

to complete this mission. Nineteen of them have been selected, but one of them can't be decided. At this time,

Mao Sui volunteered to go, but Ping Yuanjun was dubious and reluctantly took him to the State of Chu.

When Ping Yuanjun arrived in the State of Chu, he immediately talked with the King of Chu about "aiding Zhao", but it was

fruitless for a long time. At this moment, Mao Sui said to the king of Chu, "We asked you to send reinforcements today, but you

didn't say a word, but don't forget that although Chu has a large number of soldiers, it has been defeated again and again, and even the capital

has been lost. In my opinion, Chu needs to unite against Qin more than Zhao!"

Mao sui's words convinced the king of Chu, and he immediately agreed to send troops to help Zhao.

when Ping Yuanjun returned to Zhao, he said with emotion, "Mr. Mao arrived in Chu, which made Chu more important than Jiuding

Dalu." (Jiuding Dalu: Zhong Ming, together with Ding, is a treasure of ancient countries. )

The idiom "One word keeps its promise" comes from this story, and it can play an important role to describe a sentence.

Returning home with clothes

The History of the South. Volume 38. Biography of Liu Yuanjing

The word Qingyuan is Wen He, a disciple of Yuanjing. ..... Ba Fu Jian, in order to engage in Langzhong. Emperor Wu received Zen meditation, and

was given the title of "An Hou", and was appointed as a regular servant of a scattered rider, and was changed to Du Hou of Feng Yun. Out for yongzhou secretariat, plus the viceroy. Emperor

found himself in the new pavilion, saying, "I have nothing to worry about when I return home dressed in gold. At the beginning, Emperor Wudi was Yongzhou

, and Qingyuan was another driver. He said, "Once upon a time, the sheep spoke ricas, and when you were young, you should live in my place. This view is also

the same. "It has not been ten years, and Qingyuan is the governor, and the talker thinks it is more than Wei Yongzhi.

Liu Bang's besieged on all sides changed Xiang Yu's morale. The soldiers wept bitterly. At the beginning, Xiang Yu lost the "good opportunity to break Xianyang first to be king" for

. I lost the opportunity to kill Liu bang at the Hongmen banquet because of the mistake of "being unbearable". Later, because of "burning Epang Palace", I wanted to "collect its treasures

and women went east". At that time, a wise man suggested that he build a capital in Qin and be king. Xiang Yu, in the face of the ruin of Qin < P > Palace, wanted to return to the east. He also said, "If wealth does not return to his hometown, it will be like a night trip, but who knows < P >." This statement hit the nail on the head and revealed Xiang Yu's concept of "returning home with clothes and honoring ancestors and ancestors". As the saying goes, "A good man is ambitious in all directions". Although Xiang Yu has the traditional thought of China ancients, he has the ambition of "claiming the emperor". During his eight years of bloody fighting, Xiang Yu was a lonely tragic hero from the beginning to the end. On the one hand, Xiang Yu wants to be an emperor, and on the other hand, he wants to be a great hero that everyone < P > envies. And I am bent on making a name for myself in front of my fellow villagers in Jiangdong. All these

have become "obstacles" for him to become an emperor.

the wind is trembling, and the grass is full of soldiers

Explanation of the idiom: birds sing. Hearing the wind and the crane's cry, everyone suspected it was a pursuer. Describe people who are

suspicious when they are in a panic.

The origin of the idiom: Biography of Xie Xuan in the Book of Jin: "Everyone thought that Julian Waghann had arrived when they heard the news."

Idiom example: The gangsters who fled in panic were scared out of their wits.

(where ~ stands for this entry: jittery, nervous)

Idiom story: Civil strife occurred at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. Because of the long-term turmoil, the Western Jin Dynasty was unfortunately destroyed, and Si Marui, the king of Langya, established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang. When the Jin Dynasty crossed the river to the south,

the Hu people occupied the north, but the north was later occupied by the former Qin Dynasty, which was in opposition to the eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, the leader of the former Qin Dynasty was Fu Jian, and he asked Wang Meng, a Han Chinese, to be his prime minister, bent on making the country

very strong. In order to realize the wish of reunifying China, Fu Jian attacked the south with 8, troops. The ministers of the Jin Dynasty were very scared when they heard the news. Only the Prime Minister Xie An was very calm and calmly arranged the war.

In this place of Feishui, Xie An quickly sent troops to cross the river before the troops of the former Qin Dynasty were assembled.

He attacked the troops of the former Qin Dynasty. The former Qin lost badly, and the soldiers fled everywhere. When they heard the wind or the sound of cranes, they thought it was the Jin army, and they were very scared. In this battle,

the soldiers in the former Qin Dynasty suffered heavy casualties, which determined the long-term confrontation between the North and the South in the future.

being a tiger

wè i h ǔ zu ? ch ā ng

[explanation] What a ghost: It is said that people who were eaten by tigers in ancient times became ghosts after their death, and they were lured to eat by tigers. Be a ghost for the tiger. Metaphor as an accomplice of the wicked.

[Source] Taiping Guangji (Volume 43): "What ghosts are eaten by tigers is also

a tiger's ear." Song Sun Guangxian's "The Story of the North Dream" Volume 4: "Anyone who dies of a tiger, < P > the ghost name of drowning in water is awkward, and must be replaced by a person."

fire tree and silver flower?

Rui Zong was the most enjoyable emperor in the Tang Dynasty. Although he was only emperor for three years,

no matter what festivals,

he always used a lot of material and human resources to lavish himself for his enjoyment. Every year, on the night of the Lantern Festival on the first month of the first month, he must set up a lamp tree with a height of 2

ten feet and light more than 5, lamps, the number of which is the fire tree. Later, the poet Su Weidao took

as the topic and wrote a

poem to describe it. His Yuan Xi poem says: "The fire tree and the silver flowers are closed, the star bridge is locked

, the dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one

. You are all in season, and the songs are all falling. Jin Wu can't help but stay at night, and the jade leaks. " This

poem describes the lively situation at that time, and it seems to be active in front of our readers.

This idiom is used to describe a place full of lights, which looks like a flaming tree with silver flowers. Therefore, this sentence is used to describe all prosperous cities, or grand gatherings held at night with bright lights.

Tianya Haijiao

Han Yu, whose word is "Retreat", was a great writer in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

His father died when he was two years old, and his mother died soon after. When he was young, he relied on his brother Han Hui and his sister-in-law Mrs. Zheng to live.

Han Hui has an heir (the son of the younger brother, the stepson and the eldest brother will be the heirs) named Lao Cheng, who ranks

12th, so his nickname is Twelve Lang, and Han Yu is a little younger. Later, when Han Hui was forty-two years old, he was demoted to Shaozhou Secretariat because of the incident of Prime Minister Yuan Zai, and died in Shaozhou within a few months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old and Shierlang was very young. Although Han Yu had three brothers (Hui, < P > Yang and Jie), they all passed away very early. At this time, only Han Yu < P > and his nephew Shiro < P > inherited their ancestors and descendants, and they were lonely and never left.

Han Yu went to Beijing from Yicheng when he was nineteen years old, and only met with Shiro three times in the next ten years. When he was playing

to return to the west and live with Shiro forever, unfortunately Shiro died at this time

. When Han Yu learned the news,

he was heartbroken and wrote a "memorial to Twelve Lang", asking Jianzhong to prepare some current articles

to pay tribute to him from far away.

this eulogy, with a word and a tear, makes people feel sad to read.

in the eulogy, there is "one is at the edge of the sky, and the other is at the corner of the earth." Later generations extended it

into the sentence

Tianya Haijiao ",which is used as a metaphor for extremely distant places.

A rookie

Liu Beisan visited the cottage, invited Zhuge Liang and became a military adviser. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei thought nothing of diesel.

Not long after, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun, a general, to lead 1, troops to fight in a new field, and Liu Bei consulted Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang said, "I am afraid that many people will not listen to my orders, and I would like to borrow your master's seal." Liu Bei hurriedly handed the seal

to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang began to gather the generals. Guan Yu was ordered to ambush Yushan with a thousand troops.

Let the enemy's vanguard troops go. When they saw the fire, they quickly attacked. Zhang Fei and a thousand men ambushed in the valley of the mountain. After the fire broke out, they killed Bowangcheng. Guan Ping and Liu Feng, with 5 men, waited in two ways behind Bowangpo. When the enemy arrived, they immediately set fire to it. Zhao Yun was transferred from Fancheng as a pioneer.

Only defeat is allowed. Liu Bei took 1 men as backup. Guan Yu couldn't help asking, "We're all going to fight < P >. What's Mr.?" Zhuge Liang said, "I'll wait in the city." Zhang Fei laughed and said, "We < P > all go to great lengths. Sir, you are so carefree!" Zhuge Liang said, "Here's the seal. Those who violate the order will be beheaded!" Guan Yu

and Zhang Fei had nothing to say, and left with a smile. In the battle, each of them will act according to Zhuge Liang's instructions, and directly kill Cao Bing. Zhuge Liang used his troops for the first time, and he made a great victory. Guan Yu,

Zhang Fei, etc. were greatly admired.

Painting cakes to satisfy hunger

During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a man named Lu Yu in the state of Wei. He became an orphan at the age of ten, and his two older brothers died one after another. During the war, he worked hard to support his widowed sister-in-law and nephew, and his life was very difficult.

His personality and knowledge are praised by people.

Later, Lu Yu became an official. He was an upright official, serving for more than three years, and put forward many good suggestions. Emperor Wei Ming trusted him very much.

At that time, the selection of officials was generally based on personal recommendation, and the recommenders often only recommended famous people. Most of these celebrities only focused on talking, did not do practical things, and flattered each other, so Wei Mingdi was very dissatisfied. When

selected Zhong Shulang, Wei Mingdi ordered: "This selection should be recommended by Lu Yulai. The selected

people should not only look at reputation. Fame is like drawing a cake on the ground, but it is actually inedible! "

The idiom "painting cakes to satisfy hunger" came from this story. Nowadays, it is often used as a metaphor to

console yourself with fantasy, or to show that a false name is useless. There is also an idiom "looking at plums to quench thirst",

which has a similar meaning.

The fable

which was later used by Zhuangzi to describe the truth of keeping in good health came from Zhuangzi. That is to say, "skilled worker can relieve cattle" is really a word created by Zhuangzi. < P > On this day, skilled worker was invited to Wen Huijun's house to slaughter a beef cattle for him. I saw him pressing the cow with his hand,

leaning against the cow with his shoulder, stepping on the cow with his foot and leaning against the cow with his knee, and his movements were extremely skillful. When he pierced the butcher's knife

into the cow, the sound of the flesh peeling off from the bones and muscles matched with the movements of my skilled worker when he carried the knife, which

seemed so harmonious and beautiful. His action when he slaughtered cattle was like dancing on the

music Sanglin in Shang Tang's time, and the sound when he untied cattle was in tune with Yao Le's Jing Shou.

Wen Huijun, who stood by, was stunned. He couldn't help exclaiming, "Oh, that's amazing!

How can you be so skilled at slaughtering cattle? "

When asked, my skilled worker quickly put down the butcher's knife and said to Wen Huijun, "I prefer to explore the laws of things,

because it is better than ordinary technical skills. When I first started to learn how to kill cattle, because I didn't understand the body structure of cattle, all I saw was a huge cow. After I have been slaughtering cattle for 3 years, I will fully understand the structure of cattle. When I look at the cow again, it is no longer a whole cow, but many detachable parts! Now that I've slaughtered many cows, I just

need to feel the cow with my heart instead of looking at it with my eyes. I know where cows can be cut, and

where they can't. I can skillfully and freely follow the natural structure of cattle, and directly pierce the knife into the gaps between its bones and muscles, so that the butcher knife will not be damaged at all by using these gaps. Since I can't even touch the parts connected by flesh and blood, let alone the big bones. A skilled chef usually needs to change a knife every year because < P > he cuts meat with a knife. And more cooks use knives to cut bones, so they have to change a knife every month. My knife has been used for 19 years, and there are not a thousand slaughtered cows, but the blade is as sharp as if it had just been sharpened on a grindstone. Why is this? Because

there are gaps in the joints of cattle, and the blade is very thin, I insert the extremely thin blade into the gaps of cattle bones, which naturally makes it

spacious and comfortable. Therefore, my 19-year-old knife is still like a new one that has just been sharpened. Even so, whenever I meet a place where bones and muscles are intertwined, I often find it difficult to start. At this time, I should be especially vigilant, keep my eyes open, slow down, and use less force. When I find the key part, I can cut open the cow with a knife and spread it on the ground like mud. After killing the cow, I stood up with a knife and looked around. < P > I couldn't help feeling full of ambition and carefree. Then I will wipe the knife clean and put it in the scabbard for

next time. "

Wen Huijun, after listening to my words, nodded again and again, and seemed to realize something, saying, "Well, I have learned a lot about self-cultivation after listening to your

golden advice!"

This story tells people that everything in the world has its inherent regularity. As long as you put your mind to it in practice,

keep exploring. Over time, practice makes perfect, and things will be done beautifully.

Naoko suspects his neighbor

There was a rich man in the State of Song. It rained heavily and the wall of his house was broken. The rich man's son said, "If it is not built, < P > thieves will definitely come to steal things." The neighbor's old man said the same thing. In the evening, the rich people really lost

many things. As a result, the rich man thought his son was clever, but he suspected that his neighbor's old man had stolen something from his family.

The implication is that emotional closeness and alienation often lead to misunderstanding

Cutting the foot and fitting the shoes

Source

Huai Nan Zi Shuo Lin Xun

Story

In the Spring and Autumn Period, King Chu Ling personally led a thousand chariots and 1, men to conquer Cai. This expedition was very

smooth. When King Chu Ling saw that he was accomplished, he sent his younger brother to leave his illness and stay in Cai State, taking full charge of the military and political affairs there, and then mustered 1, troops to continue to advance, ready to destroy Xu State in one fell swoop. This younger brother of King Chu Ling gave up his illness,

which was not only of poor quality, but also of great ambition. He was not willing to just be the head of this small place, Cai Guo, and was often

unhappy about it. There is a counselor named Chao Wu under Qi Ji, who is very calculating. On this day,

he tentatively said, "Now that the Lingwang is leading an army to go out to war, the country must be empty. You might as well lead troops back to China at this time.

Kill the Lingwang's son, set up a new king, and then you will decide on the affairs of the court. Is it a problem to be a king in the future?

"After listening to Chao Wu's words, Qi Ji led his troops back to Chu, killed the son of Ling Wang, and made Ziwu, another son of his brother, the king. On the way to the conquest, King Chu Ling heard that the country had changed, and his son was killed by his younger brother. He was immediately chilling, thinking that life was meaningless in the world, and he hanged himself. Abandoning illness at home knows King Chu Ling.