[Idiom]: Bucket Su ruler cloth

Pinyin: dǒu sù chǐ bù

[Explanation]: It is a metaphor for the discord between brothers due to conflicts of interest.

【Idiom Story】:

This idiom is found in "Historical Records: The Biography of Huainan Hengshan": "The people have a song and Huainan Li Wang said: One foot of cloth can still be sewn; A bucket of millet is still acceptable. The two brothers are incompatible. ”

During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Chang, the sixth son of Gaozu Liu Bang, lost his mother when he was young. Empress Lü complied with Liu Bang's will and adopted Liu Chang. After Yingbu, the king of Huainan, rebelled and was defeated and killed, Liu Chang was named the king of Huainan.

Liu Chang relied on his status as a prince and was extremely arrogant. After Emperor Xiaowen ascended the throne, he was even more fearless and arrogant and did not obey the law. As an elder brother, Emperor Xiaowen was also very indulgent to him. Because he had a vendetta with the Marquis of Biyang, he killed him with an iron spine, and Emperor Xiaowen pardoned and refused to punish him, making him even more arrogant and lawless. Liu Chang did not obey the decrees of the imperial court and did whatever he wanted in Huainan. He killed innocents indiscriminately, gave titles indiscriminately, and decorated his chariots and horses like the emperor's. Later, he sent people to the south about Minyue and the Xiongnu in the north, preparing to raise troops to rebel.

After Liu Chang's rebellion was revealed, the people who helped him rebel, those who killed their heads, and those who were arrested were arrested, and Liu Chang was also taken to Chang'an. Emperor Xiaowen absolved him of the death penalty, abolished his royal title, and sent him to Shu. During the repatriation, Liu Chang committed suicide by hunger strike. At that time, some people who didn't know the truth thought that Emperor Xiaowen had forced his own brother to death, so they made up a ballad and said: A foot of cloth can be sewn, a bucket of millet can also be licked, and the two brothers are incompatible.

According to this ballad, later generations have derived the idiom "Dousu ruler cloth", which is often used as a metaphor for brotherly discord.

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