Mehdi dujuan zh

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Rafters: wooden cases; Pearl: Pearl. Bought a business box and returned the pearls. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.

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"Everything is done wrong, the foreign storage says the left": "The Chu people have sold their pearls to Zheng, which are Mulan's cabinets, smoked with cinnamon, decorated with pearls and jade, decorated with roses, and decorated with feathers and emerald. Zheng people buy their coffins and return their beads. "

for instance

Poor readers, ignorant elites, pity dross. ~, although there are many benefits? If it were in the vernacular, there would never be this disease. (Qing Qiu Liang Ting, "On the vernacular as the basis of reform")

synonym

Put the cart before the horse, put the cart before the horse, negative salary.

antonym

Remove the dross and take its essence.

a two-part allegorical saying

riddle

use

Linkage type; As predicate, object and attribute; Used in written language

English translation/ translator/ interpreter

Show a lack of judgment, just like a person who bought a shiny jewelry box and returned the pearls to the seller.

Historical story

Legend has it that a jeweler in Chu State went to Zheng State to sell pearls. In order to attract customers, he made a beautiful box out of precious wood. The box is also inlaid with gems and emeralds, which looks very luxurious. One of Zheng's buyers paid a high price for the pearl box, opened the box, took out the pearls and returned them to the merchants in the State of Chu.