Lao Zhu used an allusion to the thin waist of the king of Chu before, and today I found that it was also used incorrectly.

This mistake has occurred in all the use of this allusion, and it is even wrong to understand it in the minds of all readers.

So Lao Zhu sent an explanation.

I don't know who invented it, the king of Chu has a thin waist, and then followed by a sentence "starve to death in the palace". Therefore, Lao Zhu and everyone should think that the king of Chu likes thin waists, so the palace maids lost weight and starved to death.

I really don't know who made it up, it's harmful.

Until today, Lao Zhu found out that the king of Chu has a good waist from "Mozi and Love", the original text: In the past, the king of Chu Ling had a good waist, so the ministers of the king of Ling all took a meal as a festival, coerced and then brought, and then supported the wall and then rose. Compared with the period of the year, there is a dark color in the morning.

This story is also recorded in the "Warring States Policy".

Approximate meaning: King Chu Ling likes men to be slender and healthy, so the ministers in the court are afraid that they will have a fat waist and a fat body, and they will not be liked by the king of Chu, so they dare not eat more, and eat one meal a day to control their figure. Hold your breath when you go up, then tighten your waist with your belt and stand up against the wall. A year later, the faces of the Manchu civil and military forces turned black and yellow.

I also have to explain that King Chu Ling does not have any special fetishes, but thinks that people with slender waists will be flexible when riding on horses, and their movements will be faster when killing enemies. At that time, when there was a war, the nobles had to be the first to go into battle.

Falsely rumoring and killing people, this allusion really has little to do with women.

In fact, there are two similar allusions in "Mozi", one is "Jin Wengong likes and dislikes clothes", Jin Wengong likes to wear tattered clothes, so the Manchu Dynasty civil and military all follow suit, and they all wear tattered clothes to the court.

There is also an allusion is "the king of Yue is a good warrior", the king of Yue Goujian likes brave people, in order to test whether the ministers around him are brave, he sent someone to set the boat on the water's edge on fire, and then said that there is a treasure in the boat, and the king of Yue himself beat the drum himself, so that the people around him to put out the fire. The men around them rushed into the boat and burned more than a hundred to death.

All three stories are about flattery.

The allusion of King Chu's thin waist was used correctly, and Lao Zhu explained it wrong. So here's a statement. I'm sorry.

There are still a lot of people who are wrong, please run and tell each other. In the future, don't add another sentence "starve to death in the palace" after "the king of Chu has a good waist", it is really misleading to explain indiscriminately.