Idiom Story 404 Two sleeves breeze

The idiom story of the two-sleeved qingfeng comes from Yuan Chenji's "Ciyun Wujiang Daozhong": "The two-sleeved qingfeng wants to float, and the staff quinoa follows the moon to walk on the long bridge." ”

The two sleeves are clean, which is likened to the official incorruptibility.

Yu Qian, also spelled Tingyi, was a native of hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a minister and national hero of the Ming Dynasty. He is an executive but he is very frugal in food, clothing, and housing.

When Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne at the age of nine, the government was controlled by the eunuch Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen is a very greedy person. Whenever the court met, the magistrate would send him gold and silver jewelry. But Inspector Yu Qian never gave gifts. His good friend said to him, "You should not send gold and silver jewelry, but you should also bring some local souvenirs such as incense sticks, mushrooms, and silk handkerchiefs!" ”

Yu Qian smiled and raised his two sleeves and said, "I have two sleeves of Qingfeng!" He also wrote in a poem: "Silk mushrooms and incense, the capital and civilian revolt." Qingfeng twice sleeved up to the sky, so as not to make Lu Yan's speech short and long. ”

Silk pa, mushrooms, and incense are all local products of his place of work.

The meaning of Yu Qian's poem is that these things are originally for the enjoyment of the common people. Because of the requisition and looting of officials, it has become a disaster for the common people. I took two sleeves of qingfeng to see the emperor, so that the common people (Lu Yan means Lane and Hutong, and by extension the folk and the common people) gossiped.