Dog-tailed Sable: Sima Lun, King of Zhao, and Zhang Lin, chancellor
During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, and a minister named Zhang Lin played a conspiracy and trickery to usurp the throne. In order to win the hearts and minds of the people, expand their power, and consolidate their own positions of power, they wantonly made officials into knighthoods.
Even the slaves of the poor were knighted. At that time, the official uniforms of all the high-ranking officials in the palace were all of a uniform style, and the decorations on the hats were made of mink tails. Different management positions, the placement of the plug is also different.
However, there are too many high-ranking officials in this Sima Lunfeng, where are there so many mink tails? So someone gave him a high move, using a dog tail instead.
So if you don't look closely, you really can't tell the truth from the fake. This is where this idiom comes from.
Originally, it meant that the official was too indiscriminate, but later, people used it as a metaphor for continuing the good with the bad, and the beauty and ugliness were not commensurate. It is also used to vividly reveal the literary works of others, and sometimes a group of literati also express their self-effacing use.
