Seek the explanation and source of 4 idioms

Qiao Xuan, an official in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was dignified and hated evil. Once, a gang of robbers tied up his 1-year-old son and brought him into his house, demanding that Qiaoxuan, who was ill, immediately take money to redeem it, which was angrily denounced by Qiaoxuan. Soon, the officers and men surrounded the Qiaojia family, fearing that the robbers would kill Qiaojia's son, they were afraid to start work. At this time, Qiao Xuan shouted angrily: "Can I let these bad guys go because of my son's life?" Urge the officers and men to start work quickly. As a result, Qiaoxuan's son was killed by robbers. People praised Qiao Xuan as "indomitable" and always kept moral integrity.

reason: this idiom tells us not to shrink back when encountering difficulties and setbacks, but to face up to difficulties and be a strong-willed person, which can lead us to success.

Being besieged on all sides

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang originally agreed to take the east and west sides of the gap (in Jia Luhe, Rong County, Henan Province) as the boundary and not to invade each other. Later,

Liu Bang listened to Zhang Liang and Chen Ping's advice, and thought that Xiang Yu should be destroyed while he was weak, so he joined forces with Han Xin, Peng Yue and Liu Jia to pursue Xiang Yu's troops heading east for Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu)

. Finally, several layers of troops were arranged to tightly surround Xiang Yu (in the southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province). At this

time, Xiang Yu's soldiers were few and there was no food. At night, I heard all the troops around him singing the songs of the people of Chu, and I couldn't help but be very surprised and say, "Has Liu Bang been forbidden?

Why are there so many Chu people in his army? " After talking about it, I lost my fighting spirit, so I got out of bed and drank in the camp. And sing with his favorite concubine Yu Ji. After singing, I cried, and the people around me had a hard time < P >, and they all felt that they couldn't lift their heads. After a while, Xiang Yu got on his horse, took only 8 cavalry, and escaped from the south. Fight while fleeing

, and commit suicide by the Wujiang River.

Because there is a plot in this story in which Xiang Yu was surprised when he heard Chu songs being sung around him, and then he failed to commit suicide, people in the future will use the phrase "besieged on all sides" to describe the personnel environment in which people are attacked or persecuted from all sides, resulting in

isolation and embarrassment.

The fate of anyone caught in this situation is often tragic. For example, someone is idle because he often associates with bad people. But later, they broke the desperation of those bad guys, and when they turned to others for help, others should also think that his usual behavior was < P > too bad, and they would never sympathize with him or ignore him. This person's situation is "besieged on all sides". Another example is the discussion of academic issues in schools.

Its students are ignorant (idioms, meaning no academics)

, and they make irresponsible remarks and turn right and wrong upside down. The students are completely isolated, which can also be called

"besieged on all sides". In the course of our life, in our daily life, we should be a good person and do things in a down-to-earth manner. If we make a mistake, we will suffer from "being besieged on all sides".

3 Returning home with clothes

The History of the South. Volume 38. Biography of Liu Yuanjing

The word Qingyuan is Wen He, a disciple of Yuanjing. ..... Ba Fu Jian, in order to engage in Langzhong. Emperor Wu was Zen-worshiped, and was given the title of an Hou. He was a regular servant of a scattered rider and changed to Du Hou of Feng Yun. Out for yongzhou secretariat, plus the viceroy. When the emperor was in the new pavilion, he said, "I have nothing to worry about when I return home dressed in gold." "At the beginning, Emperor Wu was Yongzheng, and Qingyuan was another driver, saying," Yesterday, the sheep spoke ricas, and after Qing, they should live in my place. This view is also true. "It has not been ten years, and Qingyuan is the governor, and the talker thinks it is more than Wei Yongzhi.

Liu Bang's besieged on all sides changed Xiang Yu's morale. The soldiers wept bitterly. At the beginning, Xiang Yu lost the "good opportunity to break Xianyang first" for the sake of Qin. I missed the opportunity to kill Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet because of "being unbearable"; Later, because of "burning Epang Palace", I wanted to "collect women's treasures and go east". At that time, a wise man suggested that he build a capital in Qin and be king. Xiang Yu, in the face of Qin Gong's ruin, wanted to return to the east, and said, "Wealth does not return to his hometown, like a night trip, who knows." This statement hit the nail on the head and revealed Xiang Yu's concept of "returning home with clothes and honoring ancestors and ancestors". As the saying goes, "A good man is ambitious in all directions". Although Xiang Yu has the traditional thoughts of the ancient people in China, he also has the ambition of "calling himself emperor", and he has always been a lonely tragic hero in his eight years of bloody fighting. On the one hand, Xiang Yu wants to be an emperor, and on the other hand, he wants to be a great hero envied by everyone. And I am bent on making a name for myself in front of my fellow villagers in Jiangdong. All these have become "obstacles" for him to become an emperor.

4. The wind is trembling, and the grass is full of soldiers.

Explanation of the idiom: Li: birds sing. Hearing the wind and the crane's cry, everyone suspected it was a pursuer. Describe people who are suspicious when they panic.

The origin of the idiom: Biography of Xie Xuan in the Book of Jin: "Everyone thought that Julian Waghann had arrived when they heard the news."

Idiom example: The gangsters who fled in panic were scared out of their wits.

(where ~ stands for this entry: jittery, nervous)

Idiom story: Civil strife occurred at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. Because of the long-term turmoil, the Western Jin Dynasty was unfortunately destroyed, and Si Marui, the king of Langya, established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang. When the Jin Dynasty crossed the river to the south, the Hu people occupied the north. However, the north was later occupied by the former Qin Dynasty, which was in opposition to the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, the leader of the former Qin Dynasty was Fu Jian, and he asked Wang Meng, a Han Chinese, to be his prime minister, bent on making the country very strong. In order to fulfill the wish of reunifying China, Fu Jian attacked the south with 8, troops. The ministers of the Jin Dynasty were very scared when they heard the news. Only the Prime Minister Xie An was very calm and took his time to arrange the war.

In this place of Feishui, Xie An quickly sent troops across the river to sneak attack the former Qin army before it was assembled. The former Qin lost badly, so the soldiers ran for their lives everywhere. When they heard the wind or cranes, they thought it was the Jin army coming, and they were very scared. In this battle, the soldiers of the former Qin Dynasty suffered heavy casualties, which determined the long-term confrontation between the north and the south in the future.

being a tiger

5wè i h ǔ zu ? ch ā ng

[explanation] What a ghost: it is said that people who were eaten by tigers in ancient times became ghosts after their death, and they specially lured people to eat them. Be a ghost for the tiger. Metaphor as an accomplice of the wicked.

[source] Taiping guangji (volume 43) says: "ghosts are eaten by tigers, and they are also heard by tigers." Song Sun Guangxian's "The Story of the North Dream", Volume 4: "Anyone who dies in a tiger and drowns in water is called a ghost, and must be replaced by a person."

Tianya Haijiao

Han Yu, whose word is "Retreat", was a great writer in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

His father died when he was two years old, and his mother died soon after. When he was a child, he relied on his brother Han Hui and his sister-in-law Zheng.

Han Hui has an heir (the son of the younger brother, the stepson and the eldest brother will be the heirs) named Lao Cheng, ranking 12th, so his nickname is Twelve Lang, and Han Yue is younger. Later, when Han Hui was forty-two years old, he was demoted to Shaozhou secretariat because of Yuan Zai, the prime minister, and died in Shaozhou in less than < P > months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old and Shiro was very young. Although Han Yu had three brothers (Hui, < P > Yang and Jie), they all passed away very early. At this time, only Han Yu and his nephew Shierlang, two < P > people, were inherited from their ancestors and descendants. They were lonely and never left.

at the age of 19, Han Yu went to Beijing from Yicheng, and only met Shiro three times in the next ten years. When he was playing < P > to return to the west and live with Shiro forever, unfortunately Shiro died at this time. When Han Yu learned the news,

was heartbroken and wrote an article "A Tribute to Twelve Lang", asking Jianzhong to prepare some current articles to pay homage to him from far away.

this eulogy, with a word and a tear, makes people feel sad to read.

in the eulogy, there is "one is at the edge of the sky, and the other is at the corner of the earth." Later generations extended it to the phrase "the ends of the earth", which was used as a metaphor for extremely distant places.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Wei Gu who once traveled to Song Cheng and stayed in Nandian.

One night, Wei Gu was wandering in the street and saw an old man sitting on the floor in the moonlight, turning over a big, thick book, while his body was woven with a big cloth bag full of red ropes.

Wei Gu was curious and asked him, "Uncle, what book are you reading?"

The old man replied, "This is a book that records the marriage between men and women in the world."

Wei Gu became more curious after hearing this, and then asked, "What is the red rope in your bag for?"

The old man smiled and said to Wei Gu, "These red ropes are used to tie husband and wife's feet. No matter whether men and women are enemies in two ways or they are far away, as long as I tie these red ropes on their feet, they will definitely make up and get married."

Wei Gu naturally didn't believe it, thinking that the old man was joking with him, but he was still

full of curiosity about this eccentric old man. When he wanted to ask him some questions, the old man stood up and walked to the rice market with his books and bags, and Wei Gu followed him.

when they arrived at the rice market, they saw a blind woman coming face to face with a little girl about three years old. The old man said to Wei Gu

, "The little girl in the blind woman's hand is still your future wife."

Wei Gu was very angry, thinking that the old man was making fun of him on purpose, so he asked Jianu to kill the little girl to see if he would

become his wife in the future.

The domestic slave ran forward, stabbed the girl and ran away immediately. When Wei Gu was going to settle accounts with the old man, he had disappeared.

Time flies. Fourteen years have passed in a blink of an eye. At this moment, Wei Guyi will find a satisfactory partner and get married soon. The other person is the apple of Wang Tai's eye. He is very beautiful, but he doesn't have a scar. Wei Gu felt very strange, so he asked his father-in-law, "Why does his eyebrow have scars?"

after hearing this, Xiangzhou secretariat said, "It's irritating. Fourteen years ago, in Song Cheng, one day, Chen, the nanny, carried him through the rice market. A fanatic stabbed her for no reason. Fortunately, her life was not in danger, leaving only this scar. What a great misfortune!"

Wei Gu listened and paused. The past 14 years ago quickly came to his mind. He thought: is he

the little girl who was assassinated by his servant? So he asked nervously, "Is that nanny a blind woman?"

Wang Tai saw his son-in-law's look interested and asked him something strange, so he asked him, "Yes, she is a blind woman, but how

did you know?"

Wei Gu was really surprised when he confirmed all these times. He couldn't answer for a moment, but it took a long time to calm down

, and then he told the whole story about the old man he met in Song Cheng fourteen years ago.

Wang Tai was also surprised.

Only then did Wei Gu realize that what the old man said under the moon was not a joke. Their marriage was really decided by God.

Therefore, the couple cherish this marriage more and live a loving life.

It soon spread to Song Cheng, where the local people changed Nandian into an "engagement shop" to commemorate the appearance of the elderly under the moon.

Because of the spread of this story, it is believed that the combination of men and women is made by the old man under the moon tied with a red rope, so later generations call the matchmaker "the old man under the moon" or "the old man under the moon" for short.

7 wahoo honeysuckle?

Rui Zong was the most enjoyable emperor in the Tang Dynasty. Although he was only emperor for three years,

no matter what festivals, he always used a lot of material and human resources to show off for his play. Every year, on the night of the Lantern Festival in the first month, he must set up a lamp tree with a height of 2

1 feet and light more than 5, lamps, which are called the fire tree. Later, the poet Su Weidao took this as a topic and wrote a poem < P > describing its situation. His Yuan Xi poem says: "The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, the star bridge is locked, the dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one." < P >. You are all in season, and the songs are all falling. Jin Wu can't help but stay at night, and the jade leaks. " This poem describes the lively situation at that time without any concealment, and it seems to be active in front of our readers.

This idiom is used to describe a place full of lights, which looks like a flaming tree with silver flowers. So now, in every prosperous city, or when there are

8 grand boats carved for swords

during the Warring States Period, a man from the State of Chu crossed the river by boat. When the boat arrived in the middle of the river, he was careless. Drop a sword you carry into the river. He immediately took out a knife and carved a mark on the side of the ship, saying, "This is where my sword fell into the water, so I'm going to carve a mark."

After the ship landed, the Chu people immediately jumped into the water from the marked place on the ship to catch the fallen sword. After fishing for a long time, there is still no sign of the sword. In fact, how can he find the sword? The ship keeps going, but the sword won't move. It's ridiculous to look for a sword like him.

9 Ye Gong Hao Long

Once upon a time, there was a man named Ye Gong who liked dragons very much. In his home, dragons are painted on the walls, carved on the pillars and embroidered on the covers. The real dragon in the sky heard that Ye Gong likes dragons, so he came to visit him at Ye Gong's house. His long tail stretched out in the hall and put his head in the window to look around. When Ye Gong saw the real dragon in the sky, he was frightened out of his wits and his face turned pale, so he quickly hid. It turns out that Ye Gong likes not real dragons, but those painted, embroidered and carved fake dragons.

1 Zheng people buy shoes

A man in Zheng wanted to buy a pair of shoes. He measured his feet first, and then put the measured size on the seat. He hurried to the market and forgot to bring that size. He had got the shoes, but said, "I forgot to bring my measurements." "And go home to get it. By the time he got back, the market had dispersed, and he finally didn't buy shoes.

someone asked him, "why don't you try on the size of your shoes with your own feet? He replied, "I'd rather trust the size than my own feet!

11 Contradictory

There was a man in Chu who sold both shields and spears. (He) praised himself and said, "My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it." (He) praised his spear and said, "My spear is sharp, and there is nothing that can't be pierced by it." Someone said, "What will happen if you stab your shield with your spear?" The seller can't respond. The impenetrable shield and the impenetrable spear cannot exist at the same time.

Waiting for the rabbit

There was a farmer in Song State who planted several acres of land, and there was a big tree on his land. One day, when he was working in the field, he suddenly saw a rabbit flying like an arrow, slamming into that big tree, breaking his neck at once, kicking and dying. The farmer ran quickly and picked up the rabbit. He said happily, "It's really a waste of effort. It's a big bargain for nothing. You can have a nice meal when you go back." As he walked home with the rabbit, he thought proudly, "I'm so lucky. Maybe there will be rabbits coming tomorrow. I can't let such a bargain go."

the next day, he went to the field and didn't work, just guarding the big tree.