A Collection of Common Chinese Allusions 1 .

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-03-04

1 Money can be channeled.

Zhang Yansheng, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, once interrogated a wrongful prison and asked the relevant jailers to find out the verdict within 10 days. Early the next morning, he saw a small post on his desk, which read: "The money is 30,000 yuan, and I don't want to ask about this prison." He was furious and pushed the case even harder. On the third day, I saw a small post again, which stated "50,000 yuan". He was even more angry. The case was requested to be closed within two days. On the fourth day, I saw a small post again, which stated "100,000 yuan". This time, he was discouraged and said: "When the money reaches 100,000, it can already be channeled, can I still manage it!" See Tang Zhanggu's "Quiet Advocacy". Later, "money can be channeled" said that the power of money is great.

2 Pig riding. During the Tang Dynasty, Wu Yizong, the king of Hanoi, led his army to fight in the Zhaozhou area. When Yizong heard that the enemy had thousands of horsemen coming from the north, he abandoned his armor and fled, but in fact, the two sides were still 700 miles away at that time. Later, Yizong returned to Kyoto and celebrated his achievements with wine. Zhang Yuanyi wrote a poem in front of Wu Zetian to ridicule him, with the sentence "Suddenly met a thief, riding a pig to the south". Wu Zetian asked, "Doesn't Yizong have horses?" Why Ride a Pig? Zhang Yuanyi said: "Riding a pig is to take a pig." "Press: Pig is pig, pig and feces have the same sound, and the pig is gone, which means that it is too late to poop, and it will run away with the stool. See Tang Meng's "Poems of Ability." Mockery", Tang Zhangling's "The Ruling and Wild" Volume 4. Later, he fled in a hurry by riding a pig.

3 The bird hides the bow.

After shooting the bird, the bow is no longer needed. Han Gaozu Liu Bang's wife, Lu Hou, suspected Han Xin of rebellion and arrested him. Han Xin said: "The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooked, the high birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden; The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed. Now that the world is decided, I should die. See Historical Records. The Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin. and "Yue Wang Goujian Family" also contains Fan Li's words: "The birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden." Later, "the bird is hidden with the bow" is an allusion to abandoning the meritorious person afterwards.

4 Screen misalignment.

During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Buxing painted a screen for Sun Quan, and accidentally, he accidentally clicked a drop of ink and painted it as a fly. After Sun Quan saw it. Thinking it was a real fly, I chased it with my hands. See Tang Zhang Yanyuan's "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties." Cao Buxing", and later described his superb painting skills as "screen mistake".

5 Puliu early autumn.

Gu Yuezhi, a native of the Jin Dynasty, was the same age as Emperor Jian Wen, but his hair was already gray. Emperor Jian Wen asked him why he was like this, and he said, "The posture of the willows is looking at the autumn and falling; The posture of pines and cypresses is lush after frost. "It means that I am like cattails and willow leaves, which wither in autumn; You are like a pine tree and a cypress tree, which grows more and more luxuriant, though it has experienced frost and snow. Jian Wendi said that he answered very well. See "The World Speaks New Language." Words", "Book of Jin. The Legend of Gu Yue. Later, it was alluded to the weak physique of "Puliu Xianqiu".

6 Abandonment. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chong'er of the Jin Kingdom was in exile for 20 years, and many people followed him from birth to death. Later, he added the country as the Duke of Jin Wen. When passing by the Yellow River, he ordered to throw away the original daily necessities such as mats (bedding) and beans (eating utensils). Anyone with calluses and dark faces walked behind. One of the exiles with him was a man named the Guilty, who wept loudly. Chong'er asked him: "You should be happy to return home, why are you crying?" The culprit said, "Can I not feel sorrow that you have discarded what you have given away in exile and the heroes of your birth and death?" Chong'er immediately withdrew his fate, saying that he would never abandon the old one. See Han Feizi. The foreign reserve said that the upper left, and then used the metaphor of "abandoning the seat" to abandon the old subordinates.

7 Qianlou quilt.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Qianlou, the sage of Qi State, was good at strategy and could retreat from enemy soldiers, and the people respected him very much. Lu Gonggong invited him to be the prime minister, and King Qi Wei hired him as a secretary, but he didn't go. He was very poor, and after his death the quilt was too small to cover his body, and Confucius's student Zeng Zi suggested that his wife tilt the quilt over and cover it, and his wife said, "It is better to be positive than insufficient, rather than oblique and excessive." See Han Liu Xiang "The Biography of the Daughters. Lu Qianlou's Wife", Jin Huangfu Mi's "Gao Shi Biography". Qianlou" was later used as an allusion to poverty with "Qianlou been".

8 The wall is east of the Song.

Song Yu during the Warring States Period said in "Deng's Disciple's Lustful Fu": Deng's disciple said that Song Yu was lustful in front of the King of Chu, Song Yu denied it, and said: The beauty of the world, there is no woman who can compare to the east neighbor of my family, she is too long if she increases one point, and it is too short if she subtracts one point, Fu Fan is too white, and Tu Zhu is too red. But she climbed the wall and peeked at me for three years, and I still haven't been moved. Later, "the east of the wall peeps into the Song" is an allusion to the beauty and affection.

9 Housewarming. Book of Songs. There is a poem "Logging" in Xiaoya, the first four sentences are: "Logging Dingding, birdsong, from the valley, moved to the arbor." "Meaning: cutting down trees, tinting dingding, birds chirping, huh. They fly out of deep ravines and move up the high woods. Note: After the Tang Dynasty, the birds in the poem were recognized as yellow warblers, and later "housewarming" and "warbler migration" were used as congratulatory messages for relocation or promotion.

10 Blue and white eyes.

Ruan Ji of the Jin Dynasty can be blue-eyed, and whenever he meets someone he likes or respects, he uses blue-eyed, that is, the eyes are facing squarely, and the eyeballs are in the middle. When he encounters someone he hates or despises, he uses the white of his eyes, that is, the eyes look upwards or to the side. After his mother's death, Ji Xi came to mourn, he used white eyes, Ji Kang came to mourn, he used blue eyes. See Book of Jin. After the biography of Ruan, "blue and white eyes" was used to express respect, attention, contempt, and hatred for people.

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