Closed Door Soup

Pinyin:

[b? m?n gēng]

Explanation:

It means that the host refuses to let the guest in, which is called letting the guest eat the closed door soup.

Source:

Tang Feng Zhi, "Miscellaneous Records of Yunxian" (云仙杂记?)：?

Tang Feng Zhi "Yunxian Miscellany?

Tang Feng Zhi "Yunxian Miscellany": "Mysterious Fragrance Cave":? The following do not see each other, to close the door. The following do not see each other, to the closed door soup to treat.

Example sentences：

不见者三年，拟重访之，恐其效闭门羹故事。

Idioms by The Free Dictionary:

According to legend, in China's Tang Dynasty, Xuancheng woman Shi Feng grew up like a flower like jade, zither, chess, books, paintings, so a lot of young 'men, they are named to visit her, hoping to become friends with her, but many people because it is difficult to see her, and can not be as desired. Why was it difficult to see her? Because she will guests, there is an unwritten rule: she first asked the guests to offer a poem, she looked at the poem, before she was willing to meet with the guests, and then it is possible to talk about making friends.

If the guest does not know how to write a poem, or the poem offered is not in her favor, she asked her family to wait at the door with a bowl of soup, politely refused to meet the guest.

The guests who came to see the soup were also able to understand it, and they took the initiative to say goodbye.

To treat guests with a soup is to refuse to meet the meaning, so people will call this soup, Shi Feng? The story of this story is a very interesting one, and I think it's a good one.

After this story was passed down, people called this soup Shi Feng's "closed door soup". as a synonym for rejection.