Pick melons on vines, sink plums and float melons, cut and carve beans, sink floating melons and plums, sweet melons and bitter stalks,
The suspicion of melons and plums, under plums in melon fields, melons from Huangtai, In the year when the melons are broken, the melons are ripe
1. Picking melons bào wàn zhāi guā
Source: "Collection of Yuefu Poems·Miscellaneous Ballads·Huangtai Melon Ci": "Growing melons on Huangtai Next, when the melon is ripe, it will be separated. One pick will make the melon good, another pick will make the melon thin, and three picks will make the melon go away."
Meaning: follow the vine and touch the melon. It is a metaphor for expanding the case and implicating innocent people.
2. Sunk plums and floating melons chén lǐ fú guā
Source: Cao Pi of the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty's "Book of Wu Zhishu": "The sweet melons are buried in the clear spring, the plums and plums are sunk in the clear springs" "Cold water."
Meaning: Eat fruits soaked in cold water. Describes the life of spending time in summer.
3. Bean cut and divided dòu pōu guā fēn
Source: Bao Zhao's "Wucheng Fu" of the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty: "Three dynasties and more than five hundred years, the melon was cut and divided. "Bean split."
Meaning: Like a melon being split open and a bean split from the pod. It is a metaphor for the country being divided.
4. Floating melons and sinking plums fú guā chén lǐ
Source: Cao Pi of Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, "Wu Zhi Shu" by Chao Ge Ling: "Floating melons sink in clear springs, sinking plums and plums in the cold ice" ”
Meaning: Eat fruits soaked in cold water. Describes the life of spending time in summer.
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Meaning: The stem of the melon is bitter. Metaphor: Nothing is perfect.
6. The suspicion of melons and plums guā lǐ zhī xián
Source: "Old Tang Book·Liu Gongquan Biography": "Why is the suspicion of melons and plums known to every household?"
Meaning: melon and plum: under the melon field and plum. A metaphor for being in a position of suspicion.
7. Guā tián lǐ xià under melon fields and plums
Source: "Northern History·Yuan Fan Biography": "The ancients were wary of melon fields and plum trees."
Meaning: metaphor Situations that may easily arouse suspicion.
8. Huangtai zhī guā huáng tái zhī guā
Source: "New Book of Tang: The Biography of Emperor Chengtian": "The wise man is worried all day long. Every time he serves, he dares not There is a saying, which is to compose a piece of music and make the workers sing it. He said: "Grow melons under the yellow platform, and when they are ripe, the seeds will be separated." '"
Meaning: Huangtai: refers to "Huangtai Melon Ci", written by Li Xian of the Tang Dynasty, in the hope that Gaozong and Wu Zetian could no longer depose the prince. The metaphor is unbearable.
9. The Year of Broken Melon pò guā zhī nián
Source: Song Dynasty Lu You's "Untitled" poem: "When Jasper didn't break the melon, he learned singing and dancing and entered the Hou family."
Meaning: The character "melon" can be divided into two characters, so old poems and articles call a woman's sixteenth year "the year when she breaks the melon".
10. gǔn guā làn shú
Source: Chapter 11 of "The Scholars" by Wu Jingzi of the Qing Dynasty: "I started to lecture and read articles at the age of eleven or twelve, first of all Read a manuscript written by Wang Shouxi with great proficiency. ”
Meaning: To describe reading or memorizing fluently and proficiently.