Chinese culture is broad and profound, has a long history, and is all-encompassing, and one of the branches is the colloquialism, which has been passed down by word of mouth by generations of people and has been passed down to this day. Although the sayings are easy to understand, but the words are concise and concise, the ancients will be many truths, into one sentence after another of the sayings, therefore, the saying is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, the saying is like a treasure, worth excavating for posterity.
Many sayings are very classic, such as the two sayings to be told today, exposing human nature, the proverbial saying describes that the background of the story takes place in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the Qi State, one sentence describes women, one sentence describes men, respectively, "want to eat in the East, and the West Family Stays" and "There is nothing to do with the bell, nothing to do in the summer and spring"
First of all, let's look at "wanting to eat from the east family, and the west family stays", it is said that there is a girl in the country of Qi, who looks like a jade and looks like a flower, and when she reaches the age of marriage, two families come to propose to each other, of which the man of the east family looks ugly, but the waist is full of money, and the man of the west family is poor, but he looks handsome.
The girl's parents hesitated and asked for the girl's opinion. The girl's father saw that the girl hesitated, thinking that the girl felt shy and difficult to talk about, so he asked the girl to stretch out her arm to show it, and the left arm was extended to choose the owner, and vice versa.
Who knew that the girl stretched out two arms, the girl's father fell into doubt, the girl explained: "I want to eat at the east house during the day and stay at the west house at night." ”
The above is the allusion behind the saying "want the east to eat, and the west to stay", which is very similar to "there is no bell without beauty, nothing to do in the summer and spring".
Regarding "there is no bell without yan, nothing to do with summer and spring", recently derived from the saying "there is a demon Sun Wukong, no strange pig eight precepts", referring to the Tang monks in the Journey to the West, once they encounter a monster, they shout Sun Wukong to save their lives, and when they do not encounter a monster, The Tang monk is partial to the eight precepts of the pig.
Zhong Wuyan, originally called Zhong Lichun, was a person without salt in the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, because his appearance was extremely ugly, and he did not marry until he was forty years old, so he was called "Wuyan"
According to the description of King Xuan of Qi, the Qing Dafu of the State of Qi, King Xuan of Qi had three major hobbies, horse riding, food, and women. In his early years, King Xuan of Qi was obsessed with female sex and abandoned the government, resulting in Zhong Wuyan's hometown being often invaded by enemy troops, and although Zhong Wuyan was a female stream, she was familiar with the art of war from an early age, proficient in martial arts, and complete in both literature and martial arts.
Zhong Wuyan, enraged, broke into the imperial court to see King Xuan of Qi, and Zhong Wuyan, in front of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, analyzed the urgency of the war at that time and listed the four dangers facing the State of Qi. Zhong Wuyan's analysis, just as wonderful as zhuge Liang's Longzhong pair in later generations, Qi Xuanwang Daigo was empowered, and immediately decided to change his former wrongs, and in order to express his determination to the ministers, Zhong Wuyan was established as the queen.
Zhong Wuyan was made queen, her talent was revealed, she went out and entered the country, solved many crises for the state of Qi, governed the country, planned, and steadily improved the national strength of the state of Qi.
Looking back at King Xuan of Qi, it is true that Jiangshan is easy to change his nature and is difficult to move, he did not change his lustful nature, and after establishing Zhong Wuyan, he indulged in a beauty named Xia Yingchun, and sealed Xia Yingchun as the Lady of the Western Palace.
Once a battle situation or decision was made, King Qi Xuan would run to discuss countermeasures with Queen Zhong Wuyan, and once there was nothing going on in the middle of the country and the world was at peace, King Qi Xuan would get along with the beauty Xia Yingchun.
The above is the story behind the proverbial sayings "want to eat in the east, and the west family stays" and "there is no bell without beauty, nothing to do in the summer and spring", they all reflect the best of both worlds, and do not hesitate to take advantage of the greedy side of other people's humanity, do you have such a person around you? Comments are welcome.