In addition, many pearls and emeralds are tied to boxes and decorated with roses and emeralds. A A Zheng man saw that the box was very beautiful, so he bought it and returned the jewels to the Chu people.
Buy the box, but return the pearls.
Pronunciation: m m m m m m m m m m I dúHuán zh
Explanation: The original intention is to buy a wooden box with pearls and return them. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice. Buying bamboo slips and returning pearls is a derogatory term.
The origin of the idiom: Han Fei in the Warring States Period, "Han Fei's Stories on the Left": "Chu people sell their pearls to Zheng, which is the cabinet of Mulan, decorated with cinnamon, pearls and jade, roses and feathers, and Zheng people buy their rafters and return their pearls."
It means that there is a jewelry seller in Zheng State. He carved a pearl box with precious Mulan, smoked it with spices made of cinnamon, and decorated it with jewels and precious stones. Connected with beautiful jade, decorated with jade, and connected with kingfisher feathers. A man from Zheng bought this box, but returned the beads inside to him.
Extended data
meaning
1, everything should be prioritized, or you will do this stupid thing of "buying gifts and returning pearls to Zheng Ren".
2. Businessmen pay too much attention to appearance, so that the value of decorative appearance is higher than that of beads. It can be used to describe that some manufacturers over-decorate their appearance in order to make profits, so that the value of appearance packaging is higher than that of goods, but the goods they want to sell cannot be sold.
Modernity is also used to describe that people who spend little capital get greater returns, and those who sell rafters get "pearls" with a "rafter".
4. Describe a person with a keen eye and a proper choice.
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