ends of the earth
Han Yu, the word "Hui", was a great scholar in the middle 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 and his sister-in-law Zheng.
Han Hui has an heir (younger brother, stepson and eldest brother's son) named Lao Cheng, ranking 12, so he is nicknamed Shierlang, and Han Yu is even younger.
Later, when Han Hui was forty-two, he was demoted as the secretariat of Shaozhou by Yuan Zai, the prime minister, and died in Shaozhou within a few months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old and Shi Lang was still very young.
Although Han Yu had three brothers (Hui, Yang and Jie), they all died very early.
At this time, only Han Yu and his nephew Shi Erlang inherited their ancestors and descendants, and they were lonely and inseparable.
Han Yu 19 years old went to Beijing from Yicheng, and only saw Shiro three times in the next ten years.
When he was planning to return to the west and live with Shiro forever, unfortunately Shiro died at this time.
Han Yu was heartbroken when he learned the news. He wrote a song "Ode to Twelve Lang" and asked Jianzhong to prepare some current affairs articles to pay tribute to him from a distance.
This eulogy, a word and a tear, makes people sad to read.
In the eulogy, there are "one on the edge of the sky and one in the corner of the ground."
"sentence, later generations changed it to" the ends of the earth "this sentence, used as a metaphor for extremely distant places.
Samyama hen
Yan Ying was the prime minister of Qi Jinggong during the Warring States Period, and his figure was not very tall. According to the cloud, he is less than six feet long (equivalent to four feet three inches now), but he is very talented and famous as a vassal. One day, Yan Ying went out to see the car and was driven away by his charioteer (coachman).
The charioteer's wife is very virtuous When the charioteer drove by his door, his wife peeked through the door and saw her husband waving a whip, showing a proud look.
When her husband came home that evening, she scolded him: "Yan Ying was less than six feet long, and he became the prime minister of Qi, which is famous all over the world. The rulers of all countries know him and admire him.
I think his attitude is still very modest, and he doesn't feel complacent at all; You are eight feet long, and your appearance is much more gorgeous than his. You are only his driver, and you are proud of yourself, so you will not be developed and can only do some humble work. I'm so sorry for you! "
After listening to his wife's words, the charioteer's attitude gradually changed, and he seemed modest and kind everywhere. Yan Ying was surprised to see the charioteer suddenly grovel, and asked him why. The coachman honestly told Yan Ying what his wife had said.
Yan Ying is a person worthy of promotion, because he can turn over a new leaf immediately after hearing advice, so he is recommended as a doctor.
From the story of the sage supporting his wife, later generations extended praise to others for their virtuous wives.
Nowadays, most people think that a wife can help her husband, which has made progress in his career, studies and personality and increased his position in society. It is said that he has a virtuous wife.
Fire tree and silver flower?
Zong Rui was one of the most pleasant emperors in the Tang Dynasty. Although he has only been emperor for three years, no matter what festivals, he always uses a lot of material and human resources to give a big banquet for his play.
Every year on the night of the Lantern Festival in the first month, he sets up a 20-foot-high lantern tree and lights more than 50,000 lanterns, nicknamed Huoshu.
Later, the poet Su Weidao wrote a poem to describe it.
His Yuan Xi poem says: "The fire tree is closed with silver flowers, the star bridge is locked, the dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes."
Prostitutes are in season, songs are falling, and Jin Wu can't help staying overnight.
"This poem describes the lively scene at that time unabashedly, as if it were active in front of our readers.
This idiom is used to describe a place that is brightly lit and looks like a fire tree and silver flowers.
So now every bustling city, or the grand * * * meeting held in the evening, is brightly lit, and this sentence is used to describe it.
Buy the box, but return the pearls.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a businessman in the State of Chu who specialized in selling jewelry. Once he went to Qi State to sell jewelry. For the sake of good business and best-selling jewelry, he specially made many small boxes with precious wood, which were beautifully carved and decorated, so that the boxes would give off a fragrance, and then put the jewelry in the boxes.
A man from Zheng saw the box containing the orb exquisite and beautiful. After asking the price, he bought one, opened the box, took out the treasure inside and gave it back to the jeweler.
Without risk, risk cannot be realized.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chao fought Dou Gu, an official and a captain, and made great contributions to the Xiongnu.
Later, it was sent to the western regions (now the whole province of Xinjiang, the border of Gansu and a part of Central Asia west of Congling).
He went to Zheng first.
The king knew that Ban Chao was a man and respected him very much, but every once in a while, he was suddenly left out in the cold.
Ban Chao gathered 36 people and said, "Zheng has been very cold to us recently. The Huns in the north must have sent someone to woo him and make him hesitate to obey.
A wise man should have found out before things germinated, and now things are obvious. "
When asked, it really is.
So Ban Chao made an appointment with everyone: "We are in a very dangerous situation. The Xiongnu emissary has only been here for a few days, and King Zhengshan is so cold to us. If we wait a little longer.
King Zheng Shan may tie us up and hand us over to the Huns.
You say, what should we do? "At that time, everyone firmly expressed their willingness to listen to his thoughts.
He continued, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The only way now is to attack the Huns tonight and kill them quickly.
Only in this way can the King of Zheng Shan sincerely submit to the Han Dynasty. "
That night, Ban Chao and his thirty-six companions rushed into the residence of the Huns, and fought to the death, defeating most of the Huns with a small number of manpower, achieving the expected goal.
According to this story, later generations derived the phrase "nothing ventured, nothing gained" to show that people can't achieve their goals unless they make up their minds, experience obstacles and work hard.
For example, in order to study the possibility of using glacier water to irrigate farmland, several scientists are going to make field trips and conduct experiments on icebergs.
This is a dangerous and hard work, but they think that no real results can be achieved without on-the-spot investigation and study.
This situation can be said as "nothing ventured, nothing gained".