What do hotel dogs and pharmacy dragons mean?

Hotel fierce dog: leaders can only know people from the overall situation.

Drugstore Dragonfly: Dragonfly refers to the keel of traditional Chinese medicine. The keel in the drugstore. Metaphor is skinny.

Close to the sage, stay away from the villain.

The evil dog in the hotel is a fable from Yan Zi Chun Qiu, which means that even the best wine will turn sour if it is not driven by the evil dog. It is used to teach people to be close to sages and stay away from villains, so as to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Among them, "hotel" is a shop selling wine in ancient times, not what people call a hotel now.

Fable translation

Once upon a time, there was a man who sold wine. He loved cleanliness very much. His wine is cleaned every day, and the signboard advertisement is also very eye-catching. But his wine just can't be sold. All the wine is sour and he can't drink it. The wine boss wondered, "This is unreasonable!"

So he asked his neighbor, and the neighbor said, "Your dog looks scary to me. When someone comes in to sell wine, it bites. Is it to buy wine or to die? " So no matter how good your wine is, it won't sell. "

skinny

Dragonfly refers to the keel of Chinese medicine. Literally, it means the keel in the drugstore, which means that people are skinny. From Song Yuefu's Reading Quge in the Southern Dynasties: "Since I started from Bielang, I have been lying on my head, and my dragonfly has fallen into a drugstore, and my bones are only for you." This poem describes a woman who lives alone in a boudoir. She is emaciated by thinking about her husband all day, and her body is as thin as a skeleton.