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paraphrase
Cooking: Boil. When the birds were gone, the bows and arrows were hidden: the hares were hunted, the hounds were useless, and they were boiled and eaten. The parable is that after a thing is successful, the person who has done the work is abandoned or killed.
derivation
"History of the Yue King's Gou Jian Family": "The birds are exhausted, the good bows are hidden; the cunning rabbits die, and the lackeys cook." The Yue king is a long-necked bird with a beak, and can share suffering with him, but not with pleasure. Why don't you go? ”
Idiom usage
】 Linkage type. As a predicate, a definite word, a satire.
synonym
Unload and kill donkeys, cross rivers and bridges, and forget about fish
antonym
Thanks to Dade, unswerving
Recently, the editor was chasing a drama called "Sima Yi's Tiger Xiaolong Yin" In the play, Zhuge Liang's brilliant empty city plan was actually due to Sima Yi's inner constraints, and he was afraid that the Gong Gao Zhen Lord would let Zhuge Liang go; after Zhuge Liang's death, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao discussed whether his father would hide his father.
I didn't know the meaning of this idiom at the time, thinking that it was the meaning of retiring from success and returning home. Later, I searched Baidu for meaning, and only then did I understand Sima Yi's hidden forbearance as a courtier. I then looked down at the idiom allusions and found that there are many familiar characters in the story, including yue wang gou jian who is paid to taste courage, Xi Shi who is known as the beauty of sinking fish, tao Zhu gong fan li, the originator of the Taoist merchant, and Wu Zixu, who has a life of ups and downs. Let's take a look.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Yue fought each other, and in 497 BC, Wu Wang Fuchai led an army to defeat the Yue State, and yue wang Gou Jian was captured. In order to restore the country, he endured humiliation and burdens, showed the grave to Lu Lu, fed the horses to the husband, and took off the shoes of the husband, and behaved respectfully. Even more when Wu Wangfu was ill, he took good care of him, and Fucha was deeply moved, so he released Gou Jian back to China, and Gou Jian's plan succeeded. After returning to China, Gou Jian did not forget the humiliating encounters in Wu for three years, and always remembered the restoration of Yue. So there is the end of "bitter people, the sky is not worthy, lying down to taste the guts, three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu".
The success of any one person is not entirely their own, and they must be inseparable from the support of others. Yue Wang Gou Jian was able to complete the restoration of the kingdom and destroy the state of Wu in ten years, in addition to his own diligence, he also had two powerful backings: Fan Li and Wen Zhong. The State of Yue was defeated in the Battle of Huijishan, and when the Wu State's army was in danger of suppressing the border, Fan Li put forward the idea of surrendering Wu, and in order to save the people, he accepted Fan Li's advice and demoted Wu to slavery.
Later, fu cha was complacent about his achievements and gradually became arrogant and lascivious, when another powerful minister, Wen Zhong, offered a beauty plan, so Gou Jian's men found Xi Shi with a unique appearance by the Huan Creek. Fan Li dedicated Xi Shi to Fu Cha. Just like Su Daji in the TV series "List of Fengshen Gods" confused the King of Sui, Fu Cha also saw Xi Shi mistakenly for life, and spent all day playing with Xi Shi and ignoring the government, which gave Gou Jian a chance to breathe. Subsequently, Wen Zhong and Fan Li helped Gou Jian to further gain Fu Cha's trust, and they also designed for Fu Cha to kill the loyal minister Wu Zixu; gave Wu Guo steamed seeds that could not germinate, so that Wu Guo had almost no grain harvest that year, and there was famine everywhere, and the people in the country were in chaos. It was these things that pushed the Wu kingdom step by step towards its demise.
Therefore, the reason why Yue Wang Gou Jian was able to restore the country and replace Wu Wang Fuchai as the overlord of a new generation was inseparable from the help of Fan Li and Wen Zhong. Therefore, after Gou Jian destroyed the state of Wu, he gave the two high-ranking officials Houlu, Honor fan li as a general, and Worship Wen as a chancellor. It is said that the end should be that the two became the ministers of the Yue kingdom and continued to assist the Yue king to practice and make great efforts to govern, allowing political clarity and peace in the world. However, Fan Li not only refused to be rewarded, but also insisted on leaving the country. Even though Gou Jian repeatedly retained him, he still chose to leave the Country of Yue and hide his name in the State of Qi. After Fan Li left, he also sent someone to secretly send a letter to Wen Zhong, in which he advised him to stay away from the political center and away from the Yue King. Because he is a narrow-minded person, he can only suffer with him and cannot share his wealth. As the saying goes: "Birds are exhausted, good bows are hidden, cunning rabbits die, and running dogs cook."
Wen Zhong did not believe that the Yue King would harm him, nor did he want to give up his high position, and replied to Fan Li's suggestion. In the end, soon after Wen Zhong became a minister, Gou Jian sent someone to send him a sword, that is, the sword that Fu Cha used when he let Wu Zixu commit suicide, and at the same time brought a sentence: Mr. Wen had given the widow seven ways to destroy Wu, and the widow only used three to destroy the State of Wu, and the remaining four were asked to bring mr. Wu to the former king. At this time, Wen Zhong regretted that he did not listen to Fan Li's words, and had no choice but to raise his sword and commit suicide.
Fan Li, who assumed the pseudonym Tao Zhugong in the State of Qi, became a rich man with his business acumen and was revered as the originator of Daoist merchants; Wen Zhong was forced to commit suicide, and the fate was lamented. What is the way of kings? I can't say for sure. It can only be said that if you meet the Lord as a human subject, you can settle down and realize your life ambitions and help the world; otherwise, it is better to retire so as not to fall into the end of a bird hiding and a rabbit dead dog cooking.