"Oriental Effectiveness" comes from Zhuangzi Tian Yun. "Dong Shi Xiao Yu" tells the story of an ugly woman named Dong Shi in ancient times who frowned after Xi Shi, a beautiful woman. This idiom is derogatory and is often used to satirize people who blindly imitate others, but in the end they draw a tiger instead of a dog, which makes people laugh.

Allusions that are effective for others.

The story of Dong Shi's success: The ugly woman Dong Shi imitated Xi Shi, because she saw her beautiful frown, and finally everyone in the village avoided her. This story tells us not to imitate others blindly, not to paint a tiger as a disaster, but to know why others do it and where it is good. Otherwise it will only become a joke.

The origin of the effect of Dong Shi

Therefore, the stone's heart is broken, and the ugly people inside are beautiful when they see it, and they are happy when they come back. When the rich see it, they will stay at home; The poor saw it, slapped his wife and left. He knows each other's beauty, but he doesn't know why they are beautiful.

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Because of chest pain, Xi Shi always frowned when walking in the village. An ugly person in the village saw it and thought it was beautiful. When she got home, she walked in the village, clutching her heart. When the rich people in the village saw her, they all closed the door firmly and didn't go out; When the poor saw Dong Shi, they left with their wives and children. I only know that frowning will be beautiful, but I don't know why frowning will be beautiful.

Photograph of true appearance of stone

It shows that among the four beauties in ancient China, the stories of Shi, Wang Zhaojun and Di Xin all have the beauty of "closing the moon to shame flowers, sinking fish and falling geese", and Shi is regarded as the first of the four beauties.

Shi, formerly known as Shi Yiguang, was born in a poor village in Vietnam. At that time, Gou Jian, the king of Yue, attacked Wu and was defeated. As a slave of the State of Wu, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, made Gou Jian feed his horses to humiliate him. In addition, he is also responsible for leading the horse for Fu Cha, the prince of Wu. When the king of Wu is ill, he must take care of him. Such humiliation did not defeat Gou Jian. The prince of Wu saw Gou Jian's sincerity. When Gou Jian was ready to return to China, the minister Wu persuaded the king of Wu to kill him. The king of Wu thought that his failure was not worth mentioning.

After returning to Vietnam, Gou Jian adopted a literary strategy to confuse King Wu and Fu Cha with a honey trap. It turned out to be a woman who washed gauze. It is said that once, when the stone was by the river, the fish saw the stone and was shocked by its beauty. Forgot to swim and sank to the bottom of the sea, so later generations used "sinking fish" to describe the beauty of the stone. At this time, Wenzhong came to find a beautiful woman, met his teachers and sisters, and marveled at the amazing beauty of the world. But at this time, Shi already had a sweetheart, but gave up this relationship for the sake of national justice.

He studied piano, chess, calligraphy, dance and other talents, and dedicated himself to the king of Wu. When the king of Wu saw it, she was deeply attracted. Shi is beautiful, but her body still hates her enemies, which makes her temperament unique. The prince of Wu devoted all his love to her. He hoped and responded that there was a melancholy smell in him, which attracted Fu Cha to die step by step.

After Fu Cha got the stone, he just wanted to play with it all day and was indifferent to politics. Not listening to the courtiers' advice, Wu's national strength gradually weakened, while Yue and Wang Goujian secretly recruited soldiers and became stronger step by step. In the end, Shi and Gou Jian worked together to destroy Wu, and Fu Cha chose to commit suicide. After Gou Jian completed the great cause of rejuvenating the country, Fan Li decided to resign and travel far.

He knew that Gou Jian was a man who only shared joys and sorrows, so he left the palace. People are curious about the ending of history. According to legend, Shi lived in seclusion in the mountains after completing his mission. As for Shi's appearance, I know it's beautiful, but people want to see how beautiful she is. With the recovery of science and technology, experts restored the appearance of the stone through the description of the stone in the book, but the result was disappointing to us. Is the recovery beautiful? Maybe the ancients and our present aesthetics are really different.

Four beauties

These four beauties are:

Yang Yuhuan 1:

Yang Yuhuan was a concubine, court musician and dancer in Tang Dynasty, and one of the four beauties in ancient China. She is the daughter of Qi Huangong Yang Xuanyan and the cousin of Prime Minister Yang.

Graceful personality, plump body, good at singing and dancing, familiar with temperament. Li Mao, the king of longevity, married as a concubine in the 28th year and was appointed as a female Taoist priest. Later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote a letter to make Yang Yuhuan secularized, so that she was able to enter the palace and was officially canonized as the imperial concubine.

2. The story of Diusim:

The story of Diusim, formerly known as Ren Hongchang, is one of the four beauties in ancient China. She is a village girl in Shanxi. Some people think that Lu Bu's ex-wife Du Fu's Qin is the story of Diexin. Its debut in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was only embellished by novelists, and it was not recorded in the official history.

3. Wang Zhaojun:

Wang Zhaojun, a native of Zigui, Nanjun County, Western Han Dynasty, is also known as one of the four beauties in ancient China with Di Xin and Shi.

4. Stone:

Shi, surnamed Shi, whose real name was Shi Yiguang, was a beauty of Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period, commonly known as Shi. Later generations respectfully called her "Xi Zi". She was born in Wuluo Village, Yueguo in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and has been dancing with her mother since childhood, so she is also called "dancer". She was born beautiful and charming, and is the embodiment and synonym of beauty.

What's the name of the ugly girl who imitates Shi?

An ugly girl who imitates the frown of beauty Xi is called Dong Shi.

Dong Shi, according to legend, was a neighbor of Xi, a beautiful woman from Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period. The idiom "East is effective" comes from Zhuangzi Tian Yun.

Enlightenment of learning from the East and using the West.

Imitation depends on the object, to imitate the good, not the bad. In addition, we should be self-aware before imitation, and we should first measure whether we are suitable. For example, in the story, before imitating Shi Shi, Dong Shi didn't know whether his appearance was suitable or not, and the more he imitated it, the worse it got. It is not as good-looking as his original face, and it will only backfire!