There is a record in the "Biography of Zu Ti in the Book of Jin": (Zu Ti) and Sikong Liu Kun were the master bookkeepers of Sizhou, and they were in love with each other and were slept together. In the middle of the night, he heard the sound of wild chickens, and Ke Kun realized: "This is not an evil sound." "Because of the dance.
It is said that that year, the 24-year-old Zu Ti and the 19-year-old Liu Kun were in Sizhou together as the master (equivalent to secretary), the two had a deep affection, not only slept in the same bed, but also slept with the same bed, they also shared the same ideal, that is, in the future, they must become the pillars of the country, for the revival of the Jin dynasty, make contributions.
Once, in the middle of the night, Zu Ti was awakened by a chicken cry in his sleep, and he kicked Liu Kun awake and said, "Did you hear the chicken crying?" Liu Kun said: "It is unlucky to hear chickens crying in the middle of the night." Zu Di said, "I don't think so, why don't I just get up and practice my sword when I hear the chicken crying?" ”
Therefore, every day after the chicken crowed, they got up to practice their swords, and the sword light flew and the sound of the sword was sonorous. In this way, spring and winter come, cold comes and goes, never stops. After a long period of hard study and training, they finally became all-rounders who could write and martial arts, and Zu Ti also became an outstanding military expert in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Later, this story that Zu Ti and his friend Liu Kun encouraged each other to study diligently and "smelled the chicken dancing" became an idiom we often used, which was used as a metaphor for people who aspired to serve the country to rise up immediately.
Zu Di was born in 266 AD to a large family in Fanyang Commandery (范阳郡, in modern Baoding, Hebei). When he was a teenager, he was open-minded, but he didn't love to learn much, and he still refused to read in the fourteenth and fifteenth five-year plan, and his brother was worried about him. But he was a man who was righteous and loose with money, liked to make friends, and the township party was very optimistic about him. As an adult, he suddenly woke up to the fact that books cannot be read without reading, "there is a beautiful jade in the book, and there is a golden house in the book", so he began to restrain his active temper and began to calm down and study well.
In the last year of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings. Zu Ti was valued by the kings and invited them to join, but he was not embarrassed by these kings, so he refused to go out of the mountain on the grounds of filial piety. Later, it was not until he moved south to Xuzhou that he accepted the appointment of Sima Rui, the king of Langya, as the assassin of Xuzhou, and was soon conscripted into the military advisory offering, leading his troops to garrison Jingkou (present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu).
In Sima Rui's camp, Zu Ti was a staunch Northern Expeditionary. However, Sima Rui was at peace in Jiangnan, was not enthusiastic about the Northern Expedition, and was embarrassed to oppose it, so he appointed him to the false posts of general Fenwei and the assassin of Yuzhou, and only allocated a thousand people with grain and three thousand horses of cloth, so that he could recruit his own soldiers, build his own weapons, and organize the Northern Expedition on his own.
Therefore, Zu Ti, armed with hundreds of his own family armed people and thousands of conscripted soldiers, resolutely embarked on the road of the Northern Expedition, and after spending two or three years, he conquered the local armed forces entrenched near The City of Chencheng, confronted the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Le, and fought the ambitious Shi Le who was bent on unifying the world stopped in Henan and did not dare to take another step south. Therefore, he was made a general of Zhenxi by the Jin Yuan Emperor.
It was also because of the presence of people like Zu Di that Yuzhou was controlled by the name of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the northern border maintained a peace. However, by 321, after Zu Ti's death, a large area of Land in Henan that had been recovered by Zu Ti eventually fell into the hands of Later Zhao Shile.
After introducing zu ti's life, and then returning to the title, then where is the idiom related to zu ti in addition to "smelling the chicken dancing"?
Idioms one: midstream strike
It is said that when Zu Ti led his troops to the Northern Expedition after Zhao, the ship went to the river, "(Zu Ti) sworn in the middle of the stream and swore: 'Zu Ti cannot clear the Central Plains and restore the people, just like the great river!'" The words were bold, and the crowd sighed. ("Jin Shu Zu Di Biography") Thus, left an idiom: the middle stream strikes, the metaphor is determined to strive to be strong.
Idioms two: Nantang out
Nantang was then a wealthy area in Yangzhou. According to the "Book of Jin and The Biography of Zu Ti", after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, Zu Ti had the ambition to revive and treated his guests like sons and nephews, hoping that they would contribute to the Northern Expedition in the future. At that time, Yangzhou was in a famine, and the guests under the door often plundered the rich. Zu Ti not only did not care, but often took the initiative to ask them: "Or shall we go to Nantang to do a vote?" As a result, as soon as Nantang came out, it became a graceful name for robbing the house.
Idioms three: First I whip
This idiom comes from the "Biography of Liu Kun of jin" :(liu kun) and Fan Yang Zudi as friends, Wen Di was used, and the book of relatives said: "I pillow ge dan, Zhi Owl rebels, often fear zu sheng xian wu whip." This means that Liu Kun, who had "smelled the chicken dancing" with Zu Ti, heard that Zu Ti was reused by the imperial court, and he wrote to an old friend saying: I have been waiting for Dan all my life, and I am afraid that Zu Ti will rush ahead of me and build a meritorious career first. Therefore, the whip of the first person was used by posterity as a metaphor for others to be one step ahead of themselves, and they also had to catch up and strive to catch up later.
In the chaotic Jin Dynasty, it is not easy for Zu Di to get ahead; in the history of idioms, one person is related to four idioms, which should be rare among China's historical figures, not simple.
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