Once upon a time there was a countryman who lost an axe. He thought the neighbor's son had stolen it, so he paid attention to the man's every word, every move, and the more he looked, the more he thought the man looked like a thief who stole the axe. Later, the man who lost the axe found the axe, it turned out to be a few days ago when he went up the mountain to cut wood, a moment of negligence lost in the valley. After finding the axe, he ran into his neighbor's son, and then looked at him carefully, and how he didn't look like a thief.

Suspicious Neighbors Stealing Axes: not focusing on the factual basis, making wild suspicions about people and things.

2. Pulling up seedlings to help them grow

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer in the State of Song, who always thought that the crops in his field grew too slowly, and when he went to take a look at them today, and then tomorrow, he felt that the seedlings did not seem to have grown any taller. He thought to himself, "What can I do to make them grow taller and faster?

One day he went out into the field and pulled the seedlings up one by one. It took a lot of effort to pull up the seedlings one by one, and when he finished pulling them up, he was already exhausted, but he was very happy in his heart. When he returned home, he boasted, "Today I am exhausted, and I have helped the seedlings grow several inches taller!" When his son heard this, he rushed to the field and found that all the seedlings in the field had died

3. Irredeemable

There was a minister in the Zhou Dynasty named Fan Bo. He was not only talented in poetry, but also good at ruling the country. Later, he worked for King Li of Zhou to assist in the government. However, King Li of Zhou was a domineering person and he was not able to fulfill his duty to the Emperor. He was also a good advisor to the king's ministers, who tried to please him. While Fan Bo advised the king of the Zhou Dynasty to list the faults of the government, the treacherous ministers whispered bad words about him in the ear of the king. King Li of Zhou got very tired of Fan Bo, and from then on, the treacherous ministers came in and out of the court, not taking Fan Bo into account. Fan Bo was so indignant that he wrote a poem which was later included in the Book of Songs. The poem attacked the treacherous ministers, saying, "Doing evil, irredeemable!"

"Incorrigible": so sick that it cannot be saved by medicine. Later, the metaphor is used to describe things that are so bad that they cannot be saved.

4. Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves

In ancient times during the North and South Dynasties, there was a general in the state of Song surnamed Zongcourt, who had been very brave and ambitious since he was a child. One day, Zongcourt's uncle asked him what his ambition was, and Zongcourt replied, "I wish to ride the long wind and break ten thousand miles of waves." He replied, "I wish to ride the long wind and break ten thousand miles of waves." Meaning: I must break through all obstacles and go forward to do something. Zongcourt, through diligent study and hard work, finally became a capable general.

Later, people used the phrase "riding the wind and breaking the waves" to describe the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and advancing bravely

5.

Yang Jian, the chancellor of the Northern Zhou, abolished Emperor Jing of the Zhou and became emperor himself, establishing the Sui Dynasty.

Determined to destroy the state of Chen, he once said, "I am the parent of all the common people in the country. Can I watch the people in the south suffer and not save them just because they are separated by the Yangtze River, which is as narrow as a sash?

Later, people used the phrase "a belt of water" to describe two places that were very close to each other, separated only by a narrow strip of water.

6. High Mountains and Flowing Water

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Bo Ya, who was a famous qin master at that time. When Yu Bo Ya was young, he was smart and studious, and he had studied under the tutelage of a great master, and his zither skills reached a level, but he always felt that he could not yet express his feelings about various things in an out-of-this-world way. Knowing his thoughts, Bo Ya's teacher took him to Penglai Island in the East China Sea by boat, so that he could enjoy the scenery of nature and listen to the sound of the waves of the sea. When Bo Ya lifted his eyes and looked out, he saw the waves surging and splashing; the sea birds flying and chirping in his ears; the mountains, forests and trees, lush and green, as if he had entered a fairyland. A wonderful feeling arose, as if the ear clucked up the harmony of nature's music. He couldn't help but take the zither and play, and the sound turned freely, melting the beauty of nature into the sound of the zither, and Boya experienced a realm he had never known before. The teacher told him, "You have learned."

One night Bo Ya took a boat trip. Facing the breeze and the moon, he was overwhelmed with thoughts, so he played the zither again, and the sound of the zither was melodious, getting better and better. Suddenly heard someone on the shore called out. Bo Ya heard the sound out of the boat, only to see a woodcutter standing on the shore, he knew that this person is the soulmate immediately invited the woodcutter on board, excited to play for him. When Bo Ya played a tune in praise of the mountains, the woodcutter said, "That's great! Majestic and solemn, as if towering over Mount Tai!" When he played a tune expressing the surging waves, the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! Wide and voluminous, as if seeing the rolling water, the boundless sea in general!" Boya was excited and said excitedly, "You are my soulmate! You are really my soulmate." This woodcutter was Zhong Ziqi. From then on, they became very good friends.

The story is from "Lie Zi - Tang Wen" (列子-汤问). The idiom of "High Mountains and Flowing Water" refers to a close friend or soulmate, as well as beautiful music.

7. A word teacher

The teacher who corrects a very crucial word in an article.

The phrase comes from Tao Yue's "Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties" of the Song Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous period in the development of China's feudal society, and literature and art were also very developed, of which poetry was the most representative. At that time, not only were there many poets and many poems created, but they were also very high in art and in the level of content.

Among the many poets at that time, there was a poet named Qi already. One winter, he was in the wilderness after a heavy snowfall, saw the plum blossoms opening proudly in the snow, and was so inspired by the poem that he composed a poem called "Early Plum Blossoms", which recited the plum blossoms that bloomed early in the winter. In the poem, there are two lines like this: In the deep snow in the front village, a few branches bloomed last night. After writing it, he felt very satisfied.

A man named Zheng Gu, after seeing the poem written by Qi, thought that the meaning of the poem had not been exhausted. So, after much thought and scrutiny, he changed the two lines of the poem to read: In the deep snow of the former village, a branch bloomed last night. Because he thought that since several branches of plum blossoms had bloomed, they could not be considered early plums.

This change by Zheng Gu, although only changing the number to one word, only one word change, made "Early Plum Blossoms" more relevant to the title, and the mood of the poem was also more perfect. Qi was so impressed by this change that he called Zheng Gu his one-word master.

8. Concentration

Once upon a time, there was a chess player named Qiu.

Autumn had two students who studied chess with him, and one of them was very concentrated on learning from his teacher. The other one was not like that, he thought it was easy to learn how to play chess, so he didn't need to be serious. While the teacher was explaining the game, he sat there with his eyes looking at the pieces, but in his mind he was thinking, "How nice it would be if I could go out into the field now and shoot down a wild goose and have a nice meal." Because he was always distracted by his thoughts, he didn't listen to the teacher's explanation at all.

As a result, although the two students were taught by the same famous teacher, one of them progressed very quickly and became a famous chess player, while the other did not learn a thing.

Following the Graph

Sun Yang had a son who read his father's book "The Book of Horse Sutra" and thought it was easy to find a good horse, so he took the book and went around looking for a good horse. He followed the graphics drawn in the book and found nothing. Then he looked for the characteristics written in the book, and finally found a toad which resembled the characteristics of a thousand-mile horse written in the book, so he happily brought the toad home and said to his father, "Father, I have found a thousand-mile horse, only its hooves are a little bit worse." The father looked at it, cried and laughed, not expecting his son to be so foolish, so he said humorously, "It's a pity that this horse likes to jump too much to be used for pulling a cart." Then he exclaimed, "The so-called by the map also."

Nanke Yimeng

Chinese idiom: A big dream, or a metaphor for an empty joy.

Chinese idiom source: 唐-李公佐《南柯太守传》

Chinese idiom story: 淳于棼 was a man in the Tang Dynasty. Once, because he was drunk, he couldn't help resting up under the acacia tree in the courtyard, not realizing that he fell asleep as a result. In his dream, he saw that the king of the state of Sophora An sent someone to fetch him to the state of Sophora An, and then married his beloved princess to him, and sent him to be the governor of Nanke County.

During this time, Chunyu governed Nanke well, and the king admired him. His five sons were all titled, and his two daughters were married to princes and lords, so he was in a very high position in the state of Samuel An.

Later, the Tangluo Kingdom attacked Nanke County, and Chunyu's army lost, and then his wife died of a serious illness. All these misfortunes made Chunyu not want to continue living in Nanke County, so he returned to the capital. However, in the capital, someone spoke ill of Jun Yu in front of the king, and without checking, the king arrested his children and sent him back to his original hometown. As soon as he left the country of Samuel An, Chun Yu woke up and realized that it was a dream.

Soon after, Chunyu found an ant hole under the acacia tree in the courtyard, and inside the hole, there was a palace han citadel pushed into the mud, etc. He realized that the Sophora Anguilla that he had seen in his dream was supposed to be this ant hole. And the highest branch of the acacia tree could be Nanke County where he was the governor.

Jun Yu remembered everything about Nanke in his dream, and felt that the human world was very impermanent, and that the so-called wealth and fame disappeared really easily, so he finally returned to the Taoist sect.

The story is from "The Art of Forests and Mountains" by Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty. The idiom of "follow the map to find the steed" is a metaphor for doing things mechanically in the old way without knowing how to change; it is also a metaphor for following some clues to find things. (END)

Banmen ludicrous

There is a pile of earth by the quarry river, Li Bai's name is high for thousands of years;

There is a poem in front of Luban's door to make a big axe.

This is a poet in the Ming Dynasty, titled Li Bai's Tomb. Li Bai was a world-famous great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and his fame spread through the ages after his death. How many literati pass by Li Bai's tomb, all want to stay for a moment, reciting poetry to express their inner feelings. And their behavior can only be attached to the elegant, "Lu Ban door in front of the door to show off the axe", too unselfconscious.

Lu Ban was a native of Lu in the Warring States period. He is a good at making exquisite utensils, people call him "clever people", folk traditionally regarded him as the originator of carpentry. Who dares to show off the use of axe technology in front of Lu Ban, that is to say, want to show their own skills in front of the big connoisseurs, this kind of ridiculous behavior is not too modest, it is called "Lu Ban's door to make a big axe", referred to as "Banmen to make an axe". This and the proverbial "Guan Gong in front of a big sword" mean about the same thing.

In fact, the idiom "Banmen juggling" had its beginnings as early as the Tang Dynasty. Literary scholar Liu Zongyuan in a preface to an essay has this sentence: "Manipulating the axe in the door of the class Ying, Si Yan ear!" It means that it is too thick-skinned to show one's skill with an axe at the door of Lu Ban and Ying (who is also an axe manipulator).

This idiom is also sometimes used as a word of self-effacement, indicating that one does not dare to show off one's small skills in front of connoisseurs.

Cup Bow, Snake Shadow

One day, Le Guang invited his friend to drink in the hall of his house. While that friend was drinking, he suddenly saw the shadow of a small snake swaying in his wine cup, he was disgusted in his heart, but he drank the wine anyway. After drinking, he was not comfortable and relieved in the end. He returned home and became ill.

After a few days, Le Guang heard the news of his friend's illness and learned the reason for his illness. Le Guang thought to himself, "There would never be a snake in a wine cup!" So he ran to the place where he had been drinking that day to inspect it. It turned out that on the wall of the hall, there was a bow painted with colors. The shadow of the bow happened to fall on the place where his friend had put the wine cup, so Le Guang went to his friend and explained this to him. When the man understood the reason, he was cured immediately.

Later, people used the expression "a bow and a snake's shadow" to describe a person who is suspicious of something, and who is afraid of himself.

Bele's Horses

The legend says that the god who manages horses in heaven is called Bele. On earth, people also call those who are good at identifying the merits of horses as Bole.

The first person who was called Bole, whose real name was Sun Yang, was from the Spring and Autumn Period. Because he was so good at studying horses, people forgot his original name and simply called him Bole, which has remained true to the present day.

On one occasion, Bole was commissioned by the king of Chu to buy a steed that could travel thousands of miles in a day. Bole explained to the king of Chu that thousands of miles of horses were rare and it was not easy to find them, and he needed to visit everywhere, so he asked the king of Chu not to be in a hurry, and he tried his best to get the job done.

Bole traveled to several countries and carefully searched the area of Yan and Zhao, where the famous horses were abundant, and worked hard, but he still couldn't find a good horse that he liked. One day, Bole returned from Qi, and on the way, he saw a horse pulling a salt cart, struggling to move up a steep slope. The horse was so tired that he was panting, and every step he took was very difficult. Bole was always close to the horse and could not help but walk up to it. When the horse saw Bole approaching, it suddenly raised its head and widened its eyes, neighing loudly as if it wanted to tell Bole something. Bole immediately judged from the sound that this was a rare steed.

Not to be missed

Toward the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous scholar named You Heng, who had outstanding talent. At that time, Kong Rong, the Great Counselor of Taizhong, was especially appreciative of him and recommended him to Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty. He wrote: "The emperor's room, the royal residence, must be stored in the very treasure. If Heng and other generation, can not be obtained."

The Emperor Xian did not dare to make a decision, and gave Kong Rong's recommendation to Cao Cao. Cao Cao loved talent, so he summoned You Heng. But Thy Heng scorned Cao Cao and treated him rudely. Cao Cao sent Thieu Heng to be a drummer, and ordered him to play the drums during a banquet for the guests. When he was asked to play the drum for the guests at a banquet, he was told to play the drum for the guests, but he was embarrassed and cursed Cao Cao while he played the drum. Cao Cao sent Thieu Heng to Jingzhou to persuade Liu Biao to kill him. Cao Cao sent Thieu Heng to Jingzhou to persuade Liu Biao to kill him, but Liu Biao treated Thieu Heng as his guest of honor, and every time he held a meeting or issued a message, Thieu Heng had to make a statement. Later, he was disrespectful to Liu Biao. Liu Biao sent him to his general Huang Zu as a secretary. He was so arrogant that he was finally killed by Huang Zu.

The idiom of "not to be found in abundance" is derived from this idiom, which describes that it is very rare and hard to be found.

Incomparable

There was a minister in the Zhou Dynasty named Fan Bo. Fan Bo was not only talented in poetry, but also good at governing the state. Later, he worked for King Li of Zhou to assist in the government. However, King Li of Zhou was a domineering person and he was not able to fulfill his duty to the Emperor. He was also a good advisor to the king's ministers, who tried to please him. While Fan Bo advised the king of the Zhou Dynasty to list out the shortcomings of the government, the treacherous ministers whispered bad words about him in the ear of the king. King Li of Zhou became very tired of Fan Bo, and from then on, the treacherous ministers came in and out of the court, not taking Fan Bo into account. Fan Bo was so indignant that he wrote a poem which was later included in the Book of Songs. The poem attacked the treacherous ministers, saying, "Doing evil, irredeemable!"

"Incorrigible": so sick that it cannot be saved by medicine. Later, the metaphor is used to describe things that are so bad that they cannot be saved.

Not Learning

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was on the throne, General Huo Guang was a pivotal minister of the court, y trusted by Emperor Wu. Before his death, Emperor Wu entrusted his youngest son, Liu Fuling (Emperor Zhao), to Huo Guang. After the death of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang made Liu Xun the emperor (Emperor Xuan). Huo Guang was in control of the dynasty for more than 40 years and made great achievements for the Western Han Dynasty.

After Liu Xun succeeded to the throne, he made Consort Xu his empress. Huo Guang's wife, Huo Xian, was a woman who coveted riches and wanted to marry her youngest daughter, Cheng Jun, to Liu Xun as the empress, so she took the opportunity of Lady Xu's illness to bribe a female doctor to poison and kill Empress Xu. The female doctor was imprisoned when the poisonous plan was exposed. Huo Guang did not know anything about this in advance, and Huo Xian only told him when the matter came out. Huo Guang was very frightened and accused his wife of not doing such things. He also wanted to denounce, but could not bear to see his wife being punished, and thought about it before and afterward, but still hid this hurtful thing. After Huo Guang's death, someone reported the case to Emperor Xuan, who sent someone to investigate the case. When Huo Guang's wife heard about it, she discussed her strategy with her family and close friends and decided to gather her clan to plan a rebellion, but she didn't want to leak the news, and Emperor Xuan sent soldiers to surround the Huo family and decapitate them.

Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented on Huo Guang's achievements and faults in his biography of Huo Guang in the Book of Han, saying that he was "uneducated, ignorant and uninformed", meaning that Huo Guang was uneducated and uneducated, and thus uninformed about the big picture.

The idiom of "no learning, no skill" refers to the lack of learning and skill

The man of talent

Xie Lingyun of the Southern Dynasty was a literary scholar who wrote a large number of poems about landscapes. He was smart and studious, read many books, and was loved by his grandfather Xie Xuan since childhood.

He came from a great scholarly family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was called "Xie Kangle" because of his title of Duke of Kangle. He was sent to Yongjia as a governor, but had no real power. Xie Ling Yun sighed that his talents were not recognized, and he often left his official duties behind and traveled to the mountains. Later, he resigned from his post and moved to Huiji, where he often drank and enjoyed himself with his friends. The local governor sent someone to advise him to be more moderate, but he rebuked him angrily. However, the landscape poems written by Xie Ling Yun were very popular. Whenever he wrote a new poem, it was immediately copied and quickly spread.

When Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty took over the throne, he called him back to the capital as an official and praised his poetry and calligraphy as "two treasures". Xie Lingyun became even more proud, he said: "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, I get one bucket, the world **** share one bucket."

The idiom of "eight buckets of talent" is derived from this, describing a person's literary talent is very high.