Idiom provenance:
"Xunzi Jiebing": "If you throw a stone with an egg, if you scratch it with your fingers, if you go to water and fire, if you go into the fire, you will have no ears." Jin Ji kang's "Letter of Renunciation with Shan Juyuan": "When you are long and you see the bondage, you will be mad and go to the soup to fight the fire." ”
Idiom definition:
Go: Go, Soup: Hot Water, Go: Step. Boiling water dares to stomp, and fire dares to step on. The metaphor does not shy away from hardships, but forges ahead.
Synonyms: born into death, desperate to fight, liver and brain, killing deadly, charging into battle, crushing bones, going through hardships, birth into death.
Idiom usage:
Union; predicate; figurative struggle
Biography:
Ji Kang (223–263), courtesy name Shuye, was a famous writer, thinker, and musician of the Jurchen Dynasty (present-day West of Suxian County, Anhui). One of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", he is on a par with Nguyen And is known as Ji Nguyen. He was married to Cao Cao's great-granddaughter, the official Cao Wei Zhongshan,and was known as Ji Zhongshan. Later, he was executed by Sima Zhao for offending Zhong Hui and framing him.
Idiomatic Story:
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Biao occupied Jingzhou, and his official Han Song persuaded him to surrender to Cao Cao. Liu Biao did not agree, and he asked Han Song to go to Xuchang to inquire about Cao Cao's unreality in order to take advantage of it. Han Song said that even if he let him jump in the hot pool and walk the raging fire, he would never shirk it.
Ji Kang once traveled in the mountains with Shan Juyuan (Shantao) and seven other people, known as the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", after Sima Shi's dictatorship, Ji Kang was dissatisfied with Sima Shi's rule and lived in seclusion in Shanyang, and Shan Juyuan later became an official in Sima Shi's court, and Ji Kang looked down on him from then on. When Shan Juyuan was promoted from the official Shilang to ride the Changshi, he wanted to ask Ji Kang to come out and act as his original official servant, but Ji Kang resolutely refused. Soon, Shan Juyuan received a letter from the doorman. When I took it apart, it was a letter of renunciation from Ji Kang to himself. He couldn't wait to watch it. In the letter, Ji Kang lists Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liu Xiahui, Dongfang Shuo, Confucius and other sages, saying that he "has a lofty ambition and cannot be seized."
Then he wrote that he admired Shang Ziping and Tai Xiaowei (a hermit of the Later Han Dynasty), did not involve in classics, and was indifferent to fame and fortune. The letter stated that he despised hypocritical etiquette and openly opposed the legal system of the court, comparing the deer to the deer, which was rarely domesticated and obeyed, and that if the big one bound and bound it, it must be manic and restless, even if it went to the soup and the fire, it did not care; even if it was decorated with golden horse chews and fed it with delicacies, it still missed the woods and longed for the meadow. This means that if Sima Shi asked him to be an official, he would be like a wild and difficult elk. He expressed his determination not to serve in the Sima clan regime. Because Ji Kang often made some satirical remarks about the government and the world, the Sima ruling clique was very jealous of him. In the third year of Jing Yuan (262), Zhong Hui, a lieutenant colonel who had been ridiculed by Ji Kang, framed Ji Kang for debauchery and slandering the imperial court. Ji Kang was arrested and imprisoned by Sima Zhao's orders, and was soon killed.
Idiom Insights:
In life, no matter what difficulties we encounter, we should not shrink back, even in the face of hot water and raging fires.
Source: Western Net
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