During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei occupied Shu and established Shu. After his death, his son Liu Chan succeeded him, also known as "Liu Adou". Liu Chan was incompetent. After the death of talented ministers, Shu was destroyed by Wei in 263 AD. After Liu Chan surrendered, Cao Mao (máo) of Wang Wei named him an "Happy Duke" with no real power, and let him move to Xuchang, Kyoto, Wei. Wang Wei himself has no real power, and Si Mazhao is in charge. At a banquet, Si Mazhao deliberately arranged to perform songs and dances in Sichuan in front of Liu Chan. Liu Chan's entourage was very sad at the thought of the ruined old country, but Liu Chan said to Si Mazhao, "Be happy here, don't think about Shu." He doesn't miss Shu at all. According to this story, people have derived the idiom "I am happy but don't think about it" to describe some people who are content with the status quo and forget to return. It also describes some people who are happy and forget their roots.

The idiom "Nan Ke Yi Meng"

comes from the novel "Nan Ke Tai Shou Zhuan" written by Li Gongzuo, a writer in the Tang Dynasty in China in the 9th century. There is a man named Chun Yuba who likes to drink at ordinary times. There is a big pagoda tree with deep roots and luxuriant leaves in his courtyard. On a midsummer night, there are few moon stars, the evening breeze blows gently and the trees are swaying, which is a good place to enjoy the cool. On Chunyuba's birthday, relatives and friends came to celebrate his birthday. He was happy for a while and drank a few more glasses of wine. At night, relatives and friends all went back, and Chunyuba took a little tipsy to rest under the big pagoda tree and fell asleep unconsciously. In my dream, Chunyuba was invited by two envoys and entered a tree hole. The cave is sunny and sunny, and there is no other world, which is called the Great Huai Country. Just in time for the selection of officials in Beijing, he also signed up. After three exams, the article was written very smoothly. When the exam results were announced, he ranked first. Then the emperor had an interview. Seeing that Chunyuba was handsome and talented, the emperor loved her very much, so he personally named her the number one scholar and married the princess to him. The number one scholar Lang became a husband-in-law, and the capital was once a beautiful talk. After marriage, the relationship between husband and wife is very happy. Soon, Chunyu Ba was sent by the emperor to Nanke County as the prefect. Chunyu Ba is diligent and loves the people. He often goes to the territory to investigate and study and check the work of his subordinates. The administration in various places is very clean and effective, and the local people greatly praise him. Thirty years later, Chunyuba's achievements have become famous all over the country. He has five men, two women and seven children himself, and his life is very proud. The emperor tried several times to transfer Chunyuba back to Beijing for promotion. When the local people heard about it, they all poured into the streets, blocking the satrap's carriage and forcibly retaining him to succeed in Nanke. Chunyuba was moved by the love of the people and had to stay and explain the situation to the emperor. The emperor appreciated his achievements and gave him many treasures as a reward. One year, Luoguo sent troops to invade Dahuai, and the generals of Dahuai were ordered to meet the enemy, only to be defeated by enemy soldiers several times. When the news of defeat reached the capital, the emperor was shocked and hurriedly called civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures. Ministers heard that the front-line military has repeatedly lost, and the enemy is approaching the capital, which is fierce and abnormal. One by one, they are scared to death. You see me, I see you, and they are helpless. When the emperor saw the minister's appearance, he was very angry and said, "You are usually pampered and enjoy all the splendor. Once the country has something to do, it has become a gourd without a mouth, and you are timid. What's the use of asking you?" At this time, the prime minister remembered the outstanding political achievements of Nanke, and recommended it to the emperor. The emperor immediately ordered Chun Yu-ba to command the elite troops of the whole country to fight against the enemy. Chunyu Ba received the emperor's order and immediately went out with his troops. However, he knew nothing about the art of war. As soon as he fought with the enemy, he was defeated, and his military forces suffered heavy losses. He himself almost became a prisoner. When the emperor learned the news, he was very disappointed. He ordered Chunyu Ba to be removed from all his posts, demoted to civilians and sent back to his hometown. Chun Yu-ba thought that her reputation had been destroyed once, and she was ashamed and resentful, and let out a cry and woke up from her dream. He searched for the country of Sophora japonica according to his dream, which turned out to be an ant hole under the tree of Sophora japonica, where a group of ants were living. "A dream in Nanke" sometimes refers to life as a dream, and wealth and power are illusory.

Eat your bread and taste your courage

In 496 BC, a war broke out between Wu and Yue in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River because of petty grievances! Gou Jian, the young king of Yue, took Fan Li as his strategist, which made Wu Jun suffer a crushing defeat, and the old king of Wu also died of injuries! Young Fu Cha ascended the throne. He vowed to wipe out Yue State. Three years later, Fu Cha led the army to attack Yue. After the two sides fought, the more Wu Sheng was defeated, the more troops of the State of Wu attacked. Wen Zi bribed the minister of Wu, Bo Ai, and Fu Cha to try their best to deal with it, and finally made Fu Cha move with benevolence and never destroy Yue State. The state of Yue was preserved. Gou Jian led the queen and Fan Li into Wu as slaves. After three years as a slave, Fu Cha fell ill. Fan Li seized the opportunity to let Gou Jian find the source of the disease for Fu Cha to taste dung, which thoroughly influenced Fu Cha and released Gou Jian. Back in Gou Jian, Yue, I slept on the straw and hung a rope from the beam. One end of the rope was tied with a pig gall. When I woke up every day, the first thing to do was to taste the gall! For twenty years, he can't shake it, every day. In 473 BC, Gou Jian secretly picked up 3, soldiers hiding in the people, and besieged Gusu City in one fell swoop. At this point, there are fifty thousand military forces in Fu Cha, but they dare not go out of the city for the first world war because of the difficulty of food and grass. Gou Jian created a miracle in the history of human kings! He worked hard to inspire and make a strong country, creating a human myth of beating the big with small, defeating the strong with weak, and hitting the stone with eggs! The allusions of lying on the laurels are called the classics in China's thousands of years of civilization, and Gou Jian's superhuman will may have more human significance!

Looking at Plums to Quench Thirst

One summer, Cao Cao led his troops to crusade against Zhang Xiu. The weather was surprisingly hot, the sun was like fire, and there was not a cloud in the sky. The troops walked on the winding mountain road, with dense trees and hot rocks on both sides, which made people breathless. By noon, the soldiers' clothes were soaked, the marching speed slowed down, and several weak soldiers fainted on the side of the road. Cao Cao was worried that the speed of marching was getting slower and slower, and he was worried about delaying the fighter plane. However, at present, tens of thousands of people can't even drink water, how can they speed up? He immediately called the guide and asked him quietly, "Is there a water source near here?" The guide shook his head and said, "The spring is on the other side of the valley. It's a long way to detour." Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "No, time is too late." He looked at the forest in front of him, thought for a while, and said to the guide, "Don't say anything, I'll think of something." He knew that even if he ordered the troops to speed up at the moment, it wouldn't help. With a brainwave, the solution came. He grabbed the horse's stomach and quickly rushed to the front of the team. He pointed at the front with his whip and said, "Soldiers, I know there is a large piece of Meilin in front, where the plums are big and delicious. Let's hurry and bypass this hill and get to Meilin!" Hearing this, the soldiers seemed to have eaten it in their mouths, and their spirits were greatly boosted, and their pace couldn't help speeding up a lot. The story comes from Shi Shuo Xin Yu False Prediction. The idiom "looking at plums to quench thirst" is a metaphor for comforting yourself or others with fantasy.

Mourning all over the place

Explanation: It is a metaphor that there are moaning and screaming victims everywhere. Aihong: a wailing wild goose. There is a poem entitled Hongyan in The Book of Songs Xiaoya. Two of them are: "The wild geese are flying, and they are crying." It means: Hongyan can't find a place to live, flying without a destination, and crying sadly. Describe the miserable scene of displaced refugees moaning for help. Because of these two poems, people later called the refugees who could not live in peace "Aihong"; There are so many people who are suffering, almost everywhere, that they are said to be "sorrowful everywhere" or "sorrowful everywhere" The word "whoa" in the original poem is often used to describe the noisy voice of crying and hunger, such as "crying and eager to give something to eat".

Love me, love my dog

Explanation: It is a metaphor to love a person and care about people or things related to him. According to legend, Shang Zhouwang, the last of the Shang Dynasty, was an extravagant, cruel and heartless bad king (see "Helping others to do evil"). "Xibo" Ji Chang, later Zhou Wenwang, tried many ways to get out of prison because he opposed Zhou Wang's imprisonment. At that time, Zhou's capital was Qishan (now Qishan County, Shaanxi Province). After Zhou Wenwang returned to Qishan, he made up his mind to overthrow the rule of Shang Dynasty. He first hired Jiang Shang (Jiang Taigong), a military strategist, to actively train and prepare for the war, and then merged several neighboring small vassal States, and his power gradually became stronger. Then, the capital city was moved to Fengyi (now near Huxian County, Shaanxi Province), ready to March eastward. However, Zhou Wenwang died shortly after moving the capital. Zhou Wenwang's son Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, namely Zhou Wuwang. Jiang Taigong continued as a strategist. King Wu's half-brother Ji Dan (the Duke of Zhou) and half-brother Ji? #93; 〕 〔shì 〕 (that is, Zhao Gong) is two right-hand men of King Wu. At the same time, King Wu won the support of several other governors. Therefore, King Wu officially announced that he would send troops to attack Zhou. The army crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin (now a Yellow River ferry in the south of Mengxian County, Henan Province) and advanced to the northeast, approaching the Chao Song of Shang Dynasty (now northeast of Qixian County, Henan Province). Because Shang Zhouwang had lost all his heart, and the army was unwilling to die for him, he fled and fell, and the uprising of the uprising was quickly conquered. Zhou Wang committed suicide, and the Shang Dynasty ended. In the next 8 years, it became the world of Zhou, known as the Zhou Dynasty. At the beginning of Zhou Wuwang's conquest of Chaoge, King Wu was not sure how to deal with the nobles and officials left over from Shang Dynasty and whether he could stabilize the situation, so he was worried. To this end, he consulted with Jiang Taigong and others. There is a written record in Shuo Yuan Gui Fa compiled by Liu Xiang, a Han Dynasty man: "King Ke Yin, the king of martial arts, called Tai Gong and asked,' What will the Naiqi people do?' Taigong said to him,' I love people who love them, and I love the black house; He who hates others hates others. What if the salty Liu defeated the enemy and made it more than enough? " Zhou Wuwang defeated the Shang Dynasty, summoned Jiang Taigong and asked, "What should we do with their personnel?" Taigong replied: "I heard that if you love that person, you will also love the crows on his house;" If you hate that man, take away his servants and household officials. What do you think of killing all the enemies and leaving none of them? " Because of this legend, the idiom "love me, love my dog" came into being. There has been a superstitious custom in China since ancient times, thinking that the crow is an "ominous bird", and whoever falls on its house will suffer misfortune. In the Xiaoya part of The Book of Songs, the oldest collection of poems and songs in China, there is a poem entitled "The First Month", in which there is "whose home is it?" It can be seen that the ancients hated crows, but few people loved them. The so-called "love me, love my dog" means that because I love that person, even the crows on his house don't think it's ominous or annoying. This idiom has always been used as a metaphor for pushing love. Because you love someone deeply, you love his relatives, friends and others or other things, which is called "love me, love my dog" or "love my dog".

Walk on foot as a car

The source of Qi Ce IV of the Warring States Policy says: "Shu wishes to return, eats late as meat, walks on foot as a car, values innocence, and is quiet and chaste at his own risk." The interpretation means walking slowly, as if by car. Story: During the Warring States Period, there was a scholar named Yan Shu in the State of Qi. Qi Xuanwang longed for his name and called him to the palace. Yan Shu casually walked into the palace and came to the steps in front of the temple. Seeing that Xuanwang was waiting for him to visit, he stopped and stopped. When King Xuan saw this, he called out, "Yan Shu, come here!" Unexpectedly, Yan Shu remained motionless and called to Xuan Wang and said, "Your Majesty, come here!" King Xuan was very unhappy when he heard this. When the ministers around him saw Yan Shu's arrogant words, they all said, "Your majesty is the monarch, and you are a subject. Your majesty can call you here, and you can call your majesty here. How can you do that?" Yan Shu said: "if I go to the king, it shows that I envy his power;" If the king comes, it means that he is a worthy corporal. Instead of making me envy the power of the king, I might as well make corporal Dayu Lixian good. " Qi Xuanwang was angry with him and said, "Is the king noble or the scholar noble?" Yan Shu said without thinking, "Of course, scholars are noble, but kings are not!" King Xuan said, "Do you have any basis for saying this?" Yan Shu smiled and said, "Of course. Once upon a time, when the State of Qin attacked the State of Qi, the King of Qin once gave an order: Anyone who dares to cut firewood within 5 paces of the tomb of Gao Shi Liu Xia Ji will be killed! He also gave an order: anyone who can cut off the head of the king of Qi will be named Wan Huhou, and the reward will be dried. From this point of view, the head of a living monarch is even worse than the grave of a dead scholar. " Qi Xuanwang was speechless and unhappy. Ministers rushed to clear the way: "Yan Shu, come here! Yan Shu, come here! Our king has a country of thousands of chariots (1, war books). Who dares not to obey? The king has everything he wants, and all the people are obedient. You gentlemen are despicable! " Yan Shu retorted, "What you said is wrong! In the days of Dayu, there were as many vassals as there were nations. Why is this? Because he respects scholars. By the time of Shang Tang, there were as many as three thousand vassals. Today, only 24 people are lonely. From this point of view, paying attention to scholars is the key to gain and loss. From ancient times to the present, no one can become famous in the world for being unpractical. Therefore, your father should be ashamed of not consulting people often and ashamed of not learning from people with low status. " When King Xuan heard this, he felt that he was in the wrong and said, "I am asking for trouble. I didn't know the villain's behavior until I heard your remark. I hope you will accept me as your student, and you will stay with me in the future. I guarantee that you will have meat to eat, and you will have a car when you go out. Your wife and children will all be beautifully dressed. " Yan Shu said to politely decline, "Jade was originally produced in the mountains. If it is processed by craftsmen, it will be broken." Although it is still precious, it has lost its original appearance after all. Scholars are born in the hinterland, and if they are selected, they will enjoy the benefits; It's not that he can't be noble, but his foreign style and inner world will be destroyed. Therefore, I would rather hope that the king would let me go back, eat late every day, and walk steadily and slowly enough to be a bus; A peaceful day is no worse than that of the powerful. Quietism, pure and self-controlled, enjoys it. It is your king who ordered me to speak, and it is my Yan Shu who faithfully declares. " Yan Shu said, "After making two obeisances to Xuan Wang, he left and went forward.

live and work in peace and contentment

The source of Laozi: Sweet food, beautiful clothes, living in peace and enjoying its customs. Interpretation: It means a happy and stable life. Story: In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous philosopher and thinker. His surname was Li, his name was Er, and his word was Yong. It is said that when he was born, he had white hair. A little old man with a white beard; So people call him "Lao Zi"; He also said that he was born under a plum tree, so his surname was Li; Because his ears are very big, he is called "ear". In fact, Laozi is a respectful name for him. Laozi was dissatisfied with the reality at that time, and opposed the wave of innovation in the society at that time, and wanted to go back. He is nostalgic for the ancient primitive society, and thinks that material progress and cultural development have destroyed people's simplicity and brought people pain, so he longs for an ideal society of "small country and few people". Lao described his idea of a "small country with few people" society like this: the country is small and the people are scarce. Even if there are many appliances, don't use them. Don't let people take risks with their lives, and don't move far away. Even if there are vehicles and boats, no one will ride them. Even if there are weapons and equipment, there is nowhere to use them. It is necessary for people to re-use the ancient method of tying knots to remember things, eat sweetly and wear comfortably.