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The story of looking forward to the ocean

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Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a river god in the Yellow River, and people called him Hebo. He Bo stood on the bank of the Yellow River. Looking at the rolling waves coming from the west, and rushing and jumping to the east, he said excitedly; "The Yellow River is so big, there is no river in the world that can compare with it. I'm the biggest god of water! "From the encyclopedia of idioms

Someone told him: "Your words are not right, there is a place called Beihai on the east side of the Yellow River, and that is really big." ”

He Bo said: "I don't believe it, no matter how big the Beihai is, can it be bigger than the Yellow River?" ”

The man said, "Don't talk about a single Yellow River, even if the water of several Yellow Rivers flows into the North Sea, you can't pretend to be satisfied with it." ”

He Bo said stubbornly: "I haven't seen Beihai, I don't believe it." ”

The man was helpless and told him, "If you have a chance to go and see Beihai, you will understand what I am saying." ”

Autumn has arrived, and the heavy rain has caused large and small rivers to flow into the Yellow River, and the river surface of the Yellow River has become wider. This time, Hebo was even more proud, thinking that the most spectacular scenery in the world was here, and he remembered the Beihai that someone had mentioned to him, so he decided to go there to see.

Hebo came to the mouth of the Yellow River downstream, and suddenly his eyes lit up, the sea god Beihai Ruo was smiling to welcome his arrival, Hebo looked around, only to see the North Sea ocean, boundless, he looked at it blankly for a while, and said to Beihai Ruo with deep feelings: "As the saying goes, if you only know some truths, you think that no one can compare with yourself, and this is me." If I hadn't seen the vast Beihai with my own eyes today, I would have thought that the Yellow River is the most powerful in the world! In that way, will not the Lord be laughed at forever by those who are knowledgeable? ”

The story is found in "Zhuangzi Qiushui". The idiom "sighing at the ocean" is a metaphor for wanting to do something and not having enough strength, feeling helpless.

The story of arrogance

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Source: "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Ma Yuan"

(Ma Yuan), the prisoner resigned, and said: "Ziyang is a frog at the bottom of the well, and arrogant, it is better to concentrate on the East." ”

Paraphrasing describes a person who arrogantly exaggerates himself, thinks he is great, and despises others.

The story of Ma Yuan, the word Wenyuan, Maoling people. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu became the emperor and was called Emperor Guangwu. At that time, although the political power had been established, the world had not yet been unified, and all the powerful and powerful people relied on their own armies, each dominating one side and doing its own thing. Among the powerful people from all walks of life, Gongsun Shu was the most powerful, and he was the emperor in Chengdu. For this reason, Kui, who was hegemonic in the Longxi area, sent Ma Yuan to Gongsun Shu to investigate the situation in order to discuss how to divide one side for a long time. Ma Zhi was a very respected general under Kui Huan, he accepted the mission and embarked on the journey with confidence. Because Gongsun Shu was his fellow villager and was very familiar with him in his early years, he thought that he would definitely be warmly welcomed and entertained this time, and he could tell the story of the day. However, there was an accident, Gongsun Shu heard that Ma Yuan wanted to see him, so he put on the posture of the emperor, and he stood high in the palace, sent many guards to stand in front of the steps, and asked Ma Yuan to see him as a gift to see the emperor, and without saying a few words, he retreated back to the palace and sent someone to send Ma Yuan back to the hotel. Then, in the name of the emperor, Gongsun Shu gave Ma Yuan the title of official and gave Ma Yuan the eyes of the official. In this regard, Ma Yuan was of course very unpleasant, he said to his subordinates: "Now the world is still competing in the hands of various heroes, I don't know who wins and who loses, Gongsun Shu talks so much about pomp, thinks he is strong, can talented people stay here and build a career with him" Ma Yuan returned to Kui Huan and said to Kui Huan; "Gongsun Shu is like a green view at the bottom of a well, he can't see the vastness of the world, he thinks he is sorry, he is arrogant, we might as well go to Emperor Guangwu in the East (Luoyang) to find a way out." Later, Ma Yuan took refuge in Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, became a general under Emperor Guangwu, and did his best to help Emperor Guangwu unify the world. In the end, Gongsun Shu was defeated by Liu Xiu.

The story of never giving up

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Source: The eighth chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cicada said: "When I saw the adults closely, I was sad, there must be national events, and I didn't dare to ask." Tonight, I saw that I was restless, so I sighed, and I didn't want to be seen by adults. If there is a place for a concubine, I will never give up!"

Interpretation: It means that although there are 10,000 times of death, he will not shirk it, indicating that he is willing to serve desperately.

Story: At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of the court fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo was arrogant, used the emperor's honor guard in and out of the palace, and let his younger brother and nephew lead the forbidden army, and made the people of the Dong clan as princes regardless of age. He also recruited 250,000 people to build a palace for himself, and selected 800 beauties from the people to be included in the palace.

Seeing that Dong Zhuo was so arrogant, Situ Wang Yun was very worried about the Han Yu Room, but he couldn't get rid of Dong Zhuo, and he was very troubled. One night, he went to the back garden to relax, and suddenly heard someone sighing by the peony pavilion. When I got closer, it turned out to be the courtesan Diao Chan at home. Wang Yun asked, "In the middle of the night, why did you come here and sigh?" ”

Diao Chan replied, "Thanks to the grace of my lord, I have been trained to sing and dance, and I have been treated with courtesy. Even though I am broken, I can't repay it. Recently, I saw that my lord's eyebrows were tightly locked, and I knew that I must be worried about state affairs, so I was sad in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask. Tonight, I saw that the adults were restless, so I sighed for a long time, and I didn't expect to be discovered by the adults. If the adults are useful to me, I will definitely serve them, and I will never shirk even if I die. ”

Wang Yun listened to Diao Chan's words, and suddenly had an idea, thought about it, and immediately knelt down towards Diao Chan, bowed his head. Diao Chan hurriedly helped him up. Wang Yun said with tears in his eyes: "At present, the imperial court is in danger, the thief Dong Zhuo is about to usurp the throne, and the Chinese Wu Yuan can be used. Dong Zhuo has a righteous son, Lu Bu, who is extremely brave and has no opponent in the world. After listening to your words, I came up with a 'chain plan', first to marry you to Lu Bu, and then secretly to Dong Zhuo. You go to divide their father and son, make them hate each other because they want to get you, and finally provoke Lu Bu to kill Dong Zhuo. Only in this way can we get rid of the great evil and serve the country. I don't know what you think? ”

Diao Chan slowly stood up, and said with a resolute attitude: "I have promised that even if the Lord dies, I will never shirk, if I can't kill Dong Zhuo according to the plan, in order to repay the country's kindness, I am willing to die under ten thousand blades!" Yuyun and Diao Chan conspired together to realize the "serial plan", and as a result, they got rid of the traitor Dong Zhuo.

The story of fifty steps and a hundred steps

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During the Warring States Period, the princely kingdoms all adopted the strategy of combining vertical and horizontal, and attacked from afar and closely.

The wars have continued for many years, but they have suffered the common people of various countries. Mencius saw this and decided to travel around the world to persuade the warlike monarchs. Mencius came to the kingdom of Liang and went to meet the warlike king Hui of Liang. King Hui of Liang said to Mencius, "What is the reason why I have bothered to govern the country and love the people, but I have not seen the number of people increase?" ”

Mencius replied, "Let me use the analogy of war!" When the two armies meet on the battlefield, it is inevitable that there will be a fight. As a result of the fight, the defeated side will inevitably abandon its armor and run for its life. Suppose a soldier runs slowly, only 50 paces, but laughs at the soldier who runs 100 paces as 'greedy for life and afraid of death'. ”

After Mencius finished telling the story, he asked King Hui of Liang, "Is this right?" King Liang Hui immediately said, "Of course not! Mencius said, "Though you love the people, but you like to fight, the people will suffer." It's the same as fifty steps. ”

The idiom is a metaphor for those who laugh at the big defeat with a small defeat. He also used "50 steps to laugh and 100 steps" as a metaphor for different degrees, but the essence is the same.

The story of the strong outside and the dry in the middle

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There was a war between the Qin and Jin states, and the Duke of Jin Hui was to use the horses given by the Zheng State to drive. Minister Kyung-jung advised Hyeong-ko: "Since ancient times, when fighting wars, we must use our own good horses, because they are native, familiar with the roads, and obey the commands. With a foreign horse, it is not easy to control (control), and when it encounters an accident, it will kick and bark. And this kind of horse looks like it is strong on the outside, but in fact it is incapacitated, so how can it fight? But Hui Gong did not listen to Qing Zheng's persuasion.

After the battle began, the chariots and horses of the Jin Kingdom ran wildly, and soon fell into the mud, unable to advance or retreat. As a result, he was defeated by the Qin army, and Jin Huigong was also captured alive by the Qin army.

Qing Zheng's sentence "strong outside and dry in the middle" later became an idiom. "Outside" is the appearance, the surface; "Middle" means middle, inside; "Dry" means dry, empty. It is used to describe the appearance of a strong outward, but in fact an inner strength is empty.

There is a similar idiom to this one, "lust is strong and inward". "Color" is the look on the face; "Strong" is ferocious; "E" is weakness. This idiom is to say that you are tough on the outside but timid on the inside.

The story of the hour

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At the end of the Han Dynasty (Eastern Han Dynasty), there was a very learned person in Beihai, named Kong Rong, Yu Wenju, and the twentieth grandson of Confucius. He has been very smart since he was a child, especially good at rhetoric, and at a young age, he is already well-known in society. When he was ten years old, he went with his father to Luoyang (present-day Luoyang County, Henan). Luoyang is the capital of the emperors of the past dynasties, because it is located in the east of Chang'an, called the eastern capital), at that time in Luoyang's Henan Taishou, is a very prestigious Li Yuanli, because the Li family is very famous, so in addition to his relatives, the rest of the people who came and went in the Taishou Mansion were famous people at that time. If it is not a celebrity visit, the gatekeeper does not report as usual. Kong Rong, who was only ten years old, boldly went to visit this Taishou. When he came to the gate, he said to the gatekeeper:

"I'm a relative of Li Taishou, let me know."

After the gatekeeper reported it, Li Taishou received him. Li Yuanli asked him, "May I ask what kind of relationship you have with me?" Kong Rong replied: "Once upon a time, my ancestor Zhong Ni (i.e., Confucius) and your ancestor Boyang (referring to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu's surname is Li Ming'er, the word Boyang) had the respect of teachers (Confucius once asked Lao Tzu about etiquette), so I and you are also world friends!" There were many guests present, and Li and his guests were amazed by Kong Rong's words.

One of them, Chen Wei, arrived just later, and after the guests present told him Kong Rong's words, he said casually: "It's been an hour, and it's not necessarily good." The clever Kong Rong immediately retorted: "I think Dr. Chen must have been very smart when he was young. Chen Wei was stumped by a sentence for Kong Rong, and he couldn't speak for a long time (see "The World Speaks New Words").

Later people quoted two sentences from this story and introduced "It's an hour" into an idiom to show that children are smart by nature and know a lot of things from an early age. But because there is a saying "big may not be good" in the following, the meaning of this idiom becomes: although you are very smart when you are young, you may not be able to become a talent when you grow up. Therefore, although on the surface it is praise, in the heart it is ridicule and contempt. Therefore, when we apply it, we must not praise others, otherwise it will be misunderstood, and you will have the heart to ridicule and despise others.

A child's innate intelligence is naturally good, but if there is no acquired cultivation and hard work, it will also become a useless material; Many people are proud of their natural intelligence and refuse to study hard, and they will be mistaken by their cleverness, and they will become the most useless people when they grow up.

A story with confidence

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The Northern Song Dynasty painter Wen Tong, the word and can. His bamboo paintings are famous far and wide, and many people come to his door every day to ask for paintings. Where is the secret of Wentong's painting bamboo? It turned out that Wen Tong planted all kinds of bamboo in front of and behind his house, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, wind and rain, he often went to the bamboo forest to observe the growth and change of bamboo, pondering the length and thickness of bamboo branches, the shape and color of the leaves, and whenever he had a new feeling, he returned to the study, spread paper and ink, and painted the impression in his heart on paper. Over time, the image of bamboo in different seasons, different weather, and different times is deeply imprinted in his heart, as long as he concentrates on the pen and stands in front of the drawing paper, the various forms of bamboo observed on weekdays immediately appear in front of him. Therefore, every time he paints bamboo, he seems very calm and confident, and the bamboo he draws is all realistic and expressive.

When people compliment his paintings, he always modestly says, "I'm just painting the mature bamboo in my heart." ”

A young man wanted to learn to paint bamboo, and learned that the poet Chao Buzhi was very interested in Wentong's paintings, so he went to seek advice. Huang Buzhi wrote a poem and sent it to him, which has two sentences: "With the bamboo can be painted, there is a bamboo in the chest." ”

The story comes from Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty "Wen and Ke Yundang Valley Yanzhu Ji". "Be confident" is a metaphor for being fully prepared before doing things, and you have a very good grasp of the success of things; It is also a metaphor for not panicking and being very calm.

Stories come to life

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The ancient philosopher Zhuangzi in China once wrote such a story in his own works: "The former Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, a lifelike butterfly, and he was self-metaphorically forgetful!" It means that Zhuang Zhou had a dream that he became a beautiful butterfly, more beautiful than a real butterfly, alive and dancing in the air. He felt very happy and proud, and he simply forgot that there was still such a person as Zhuang Zhou in the world.

King Xiang listened to Zhuang Xin's words, felt excited, named him the king of Yangling, adopted his strategy, and recovered a lot of lost territory.

Careful story

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Source: "The Book of Songs, Daya, Daming" from

Interpretation: Describe the behavior is very cautious, and dare not be negligent at all.

Story: During the Song Dynasty, there was a very learned man named Jia Huangzhong, who began studying with his father at the age of five.

Due to his father's strict requirements, Jia Huangzhong was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of fifteen and became a school secretary. Jia Huangzhong is an honest and honest official. When he was the great punctual of Xuanzhou, there was a famine one year, and many people starved to death. Jia Huangzhong used his own rice to cook and saved thousands of people. When he was serving in Jinling, he found that there were dozens of boxes of gold and silver treasures hidden in the treasury, which were worth a fortune, and he immediately cleaned them up and reported them to the imperial court.

Song Dazong was very happy and praised him and said that if he hadn't been honest and honest, these treasures of the previous dynasty would have been lost; In addition, Jia Huangzhong's mother was specially summoned and praised for her meritorious teaching of her son, which can be compared to Mencius's mother.

However, Jia Huangzhong is overly serious and cautious, and he often cannot make decisions immediately when encountering major events. Later, he was sent to serve in other places, and when he resigned to Taizong, Taizong admonished him: "Be humble and cautious, whether you are a king or a minister, you should be like this, but if you do too much, you will lose the status of a minister." When Jia Huangzhong died, his family was very poor, and the emperor specially gave him 300,000 yuan in money and 300 taels of silver to his old mother in recognition of his honesty and selflessness, and his mother's ability to teach her sons.

The story of rotten wood that cannot be carved

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Source: "The Analects of Gongyechang"

Jae Yu sleeps in the day. Zi said: "Rotten wood should not be carved, and the wall of dung should not be stained." ”

Paraphrasing this idiom is also called "rotten wood and dung, which is a metaphor for people who have been corrupted to the point of incorrigibility."

The story of Confucius's disciple Zai Yu, with beautiful words and eloquent speech. At first, Confucius liked this disciple very much, thinking that he must be very promising. Soon, however, Zaiko revealed his laziness. One day, Confucius gave a lecture to his disciples and found that Zai Yu had not come to listen

So he sent his disciples to find it. After a while, the disciple who went to look for it came back and reported that Jae Yu was sleeping in his room. Confucius was saddened and said, "Rotten wood cannot be carved, and walls like dung cannot be painted." 166 Reading Network