Pinyin: yü mü hü nzh

Interpretation: mix: adulterate, pretend. Imitate pearls with fisheyes. Metaphor is confusing the real with the fake.

Source: Han Wei Bai Yang's "Participation in the Contract" Volume 1: "Is the fish a pearl? Chrysanthemum morifolium is incurable. "

For example, but don't these traitors still call themselves patriots and care about the people here? ★ Yang Mo's Song of Youth, Chapter 38, Part II

Idioms and their stories

Once upon a time, there was a man named Satisfaction who used all his money to buy a big pearl in a remote and humble shop. After returning home, he put the big pearl in a special box and kept it well. Only during the Spring Festival did he show it to some friends. Satisfaction has a neighbor named Shoushu, who has a big pearl at home and often wants to compare with satisfaction. But our ancestors had a legacy, and they couldn't show it easily, so they had to give it up. Soon, both of them got strange diseases and were bedridden. I saw a lot of doctors and took a lot of medicine, but my condition still didn't get better. One day, a traveling doctor who is said to be able to cure all kinds of intractable diseases came to the street. The two families invited them to their own homes respectively. After seeing the disease, the doctor said that the disease needs pearl powder combined with medicine to be completely cured. He left a prescription and hurried away. But I couldn't bear to damage that precious pearl, so I only took other medicines on the prescription; The medicine taken for longevity combines family pearl powder. Later, the doctor learned that he was very satisfied and did not take pearl powder. He went to have a look and found that his pearls were really rare treasures. The doctor looked at the long-lived pearls and said, "This is the eye of a big fish in the ocean. How can you treat a disease by mixing pearls with fish eyes? " No wonder, despite the use of "pearl powder", the disease of longevity has not been cured.