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Idiom story: There is no end to the nest

[Idiom]: There is no egg in the nest

[Pinyin]: fù cháo wú wán luǎn

[Explanation]: Overturn: Overturn. There will be no intact eggs in the overturned nest. The parable of the great catastrophe of the door is not spared. It is also a metaphor for the destruction of the whole, and the individual cannot survive.

【Idiom Story】:

The idiom "nest without eggs" means that the whole is a metaphor for the whole being planted, and the individual is not spared.

This idiom is derived from the "New Language of the World Speaks. Words", will you see that under the nest, there is a complete egg?

Kong Rong, Ziwenju, a native of Shandong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Kong Rong had served as the Minister of Beihai. It is said that when Cao Cao launched an army of 500,000 and marched south on Liu Bei and Sun Quan, Kong Rong objected and persuaded Cao Cao to stop sending troops. Cao Cao ignored it, and Kong Rong complained a few times behind his back.

Yushi Dafu was worried about the discord between him and Kong Rong, and when he learned of this, he reported it to Cao Cao, and added oil and vinegar, maliciously provoking, saying that Kong Rong had always looked down on Cao Cao and so on. When Cao Cao heard this, he immediately ordered that all of Kong Rong's entire family be arrested and executed.

When Kong Rong was arrested, the whole family was terrified and overwhelmed. Only Kong Rong's two children (daughter 7 years old, son 9 years old) are still sitting there playing chess, indifferent. The family thought that the children were small, ignorant, and that a catastrophe was imminent, and did not know it, so they quickly instigated them to flee. Unexpectedly, the two children did not hesitate to say, "If the bird's nest is destroyed, it will not break the egg!" In the end, they calmly followed their father and were taken away together.

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