The idiom of Meat Favoritism Holding What is: meat favoritism holding a sheep.

1. Idioms Explained

Holding a sheep: holding a sheep as a sign of treating the army. An ancient ceremony of surrender in defeat.

2, idiomatic source

Zuo Zhuan - Xuan Gong 12 years: "Zheng Bo meat to hold sheep to reverse, said: 'I do not heaven, can not serve the king, so that the king harbor anger as well as the my euphony, the sins of the lone also.'"

3. Idioms

In the twelfth year of the Duke of Xuan, Chu attacked the state of Zheng, which was defeated, and when Zheng Bo surrendered, he "took a sheep in the flesh to welcome it." The word "naked" means that Zheng Bo stripped off his clothes and exposed his body to show his surrender, and it also means that he was afraid of surrendering. But why did Uncle Zheng hold a sheep when he surrendered? It was because sheep symbolize good luck, and at the time when his country was in danger, he offered a sheep to pray for forgiveness from the Chu side, so as to save himself from trouble.

4. Poetry related to the meat and sheep

"Xie Zhang Xiezhou made a record of the Hall of Famous Diamonds": "The gas is like a huge wave flowing down the Yangtze River, and the ice is like cold ice filling the jade tank. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see him. The color silk and young women should be passed on for a long time, and the flesh and sheep should be surrendered urgently. I would like to be close to Yunzhang to publish the Cui Shi, but I am worried that the coloring of Han can not be matched.

Sheep have symbolized good fortune since ancient times, and the meaning of sheep symbolizes good fortune

1, sheep symbolize the virtue of filial piety of auspicious cultural significance

Hundred virtues of filial piety first, in the traditional "Sheep Festival", sheep represents filial piety. In the Spring and Autumn Annals, "the lamb drinks from its mother and kneels as if it knows the rites of passage." The meaning is that the lamb seems to know the mother's hard work, always kneeling to suckle milk to show gratitude, so that Baoji, Shaanxi Province, there is a "kneeling sheep stone" said.

2, the sheep symbolizes the peaceful and friendly national character

Even now, it is not difficult to find sheep have a lot of character advantages, docile, kind, friendly. The "Kao Gong Ji" note has "sheep, good also". The "Shuowen" has: "Sheep nature is good group". Sheep follow the command of the head goat, obey the head goat arrangements, love their subordinates, love and friendly, and have a very good role in teaching and demonstrating to human beings to live in groups for survival.

3. Sheep symbolize wealth and power

"Beer Ya Guang Yao" recorded that: Pei Gong was the head of the pavilion when he dreamed of a sheep, pulling out its horns and tail, and all of them fell. The apologist said: "The sheep is the king when the horns and tails are removed". This meant that Liu Bang would later dominate the world. Although the story is superstitious, but illustrates a "tradition", that is, the Chinese people like to refer to certain animals on behalf of power, such as deer in the Central Plains, is the deer as a symbol of power.