Interpretation: wooden cabinets and boxes: buy bamboo slips and return pearls.

Buy bamboo slips and pearls. Pronunciation: Midú huá nzh, which means to buy a wooden box with pearls and return it. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.

Buying gifts and returning pearls is a derogatory term, and similar words are: putting the cart before the horse, putting the cart before the horse, negative salary, putting the cart before the horse, and improper choice. From "everything is wrong, the foreign reserve says left."

Original allusions:

Some Chu people sold their pearls to Zheng, Mulan's cabinet, decorated with cinnamon and pepper, pearls and jade, roses, feathers and jade. Zheng Guoren bought the jewelry box and returned the pearls. This can be said to be a best seller, but it is not a good pearl.

Translation of allusions:

There was a businessman in the State of Chu who sold jewelry in the State of Zheng. He carved a pearl box with precious Mulan, smoked it with spices made of cinnamon pepper, decorated it with precious stones and jewels, decorated it with beautiful jade, and joined it with jade. A man from Zheng bought this box, but returned the beads in it to him. It can be said that this jeweler is good at selling boxes, but not good at selling jewelry.

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