Meaning of "Sweating Oxen to Fill the House":

栋：栋宇，房屋. The original meaning is to transport books by oxen, the oxen should be tired and sweaty; to put books in the house, the whole house should be filled. It describes a large collection of books. Tang Liu Zongyuan, "Tomb Table of Lu Wentong": "For books, the place is full of buildings, and the exit is sweaty oxen and horses". It was said that when books were stored, they could be piled up to the roof, and when they were transported, they could make oxen and horses sweat. Later, the term "sweat cow full of buildings" was used to describe the writings or collection of books.

English Explanation

(of a multitude of books) so many as to make the ox carrying them perspire and to fill a house to the rafters -- an immense amount of sweat. the rafters -- an immense number of books;enough books to make the ox carrying them sweat or to fill a house to the rafters -- an immense number of books; enough to fill the roof and cause c enough to fill the roof and cause cows to perspire before the cart -- numerous; in plenty [abundance] ;

Explanation: dong: building, house. The cows sweat when the books are being transported and can be piled up to the roof when they are being stored. It describes a very large collection of books.

From: Tang Liu Zongyuan's "Tomb Table of Lu Wentong": "For his books, he filled the buildings when he was there, and sweated the oxen and horses when he was out."

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Syntax: conjunctive; as a predicate; with a positive connotation, describing the collection of books is very large

Example

Tang Liou Zongyuan "Mr. Wentong, Mr. Lu Zuizi's Tomb Table" (also known as "Lu Wentong Tomb Table"). Lu Wentong Tomb Table" (also known as "Tomb Table of Mr. Lu Wentong"): "He was a writer, and when he was in a place, he filled up the building, and when he was out, he sweated oxen and horses."

Huang Sheng Borrowing Books: "Sweating oxen and stuffing the house is the book of the rich and noble families, but how many of the rich and noble families read books?"

Song Lu You's poem "Feeling of Reading on Winter Nights": "What is the matter with sweating oxen and stuffing the house with books, and what is the matter with laughing at the pedants' wrong use of their efforts."

Ching Zhaolian, "Xiaoting Renewal - Yuan Dynasty Barnyard History": "Song people are quite good at writing, a generation of novels, a few to sweat oxen to fill the building, and now no less than a few hundred kinds of circulating."

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Confucius's thoughts were so profound that later generations honored him as a saint, and at that time there were 3,000 people studying under him. At that time, in order to teach the need, Confucius had organized and revised the Spring and Autumn Annals and so on. Confucius said, "The Spring and Autumn Annals are based on righteousness", which means that the Spring and Autumn Annals should be used to make people understand "righteousness". However, Confucius did not write any works of his own in his life, he just "described but did not write". In the Analects of Confucius, it is said that once Zigong asked Confucius about the "Way of Heaven", and Confucius said, "I don't want to talk about it." Zigong said, "If you don't say it, how can we do it?" Confucius said, "How can the Way of Heaven be said to be clear - the seasons run by it, and all things grow by it. How can the Way of Heaven be made clear?" That's probably why Confucius didn't write it. Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty said, "Since Confucius had revised the Spring and Autumn Annals, there were many people who made biographies of it, and at that time there were five schools, the Zuo Zhuan, the Gongyang Zhuan, the Guliang Zhuan, the Zou Zhuan, and the Clip Zhuan. Later, through the dynasties, there are hundreds of people for them to make notes and speech, wrote a lot of different views of the writings. These books could be piled up to fill the house, and their transportation out would make the oxen and horses sweat with exhaustion." (From "Tomb Table of Mr. Lu Wentong" by Liu Zongyuan, Tang Dynasty)