A successful cat is not as good as a tiger and a phoenix as a chicken.
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It's a folk saying that augments the virtuous writing. Similarly, Pingyang's falling tiger is bullied by dogs, and falling on the slope is not as good as falling on the chicken. Metaphor means that a person is bullied by the weak after losing power.
"Glory and Contribution" is a collection of proverbs and aphorisms of China from ancient times to the present. Later, it was changed to this appearance after the continuous supplement of literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was called "adding glory to the text" in history, commonly known as "adding glory to the text". I haven't seen any books, except that it was revised by Confucian scholars during Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty, which is probably the crystallization of folk creation.
On the surface, augmented sages seem disorganized, but as long as you read the whole book carefully, it is not difficult to find its internal logic. The book's understanding of human nature is based on Taoist thought, with a cold-eyed insight into social life. Feelings are polluted by money. "No one in the urban area asks you if you are poor, and if you have money in the mountainous area, you have distant relatives"; Friendship is just a lie. "There are many brothers with wine and meat, and you have never met anyone in an emergency"; Honor is determined by money, "don't believe it, but watch the wine in the banquet, first persuade the rich"; Law and justice are manipulated by money, "the yamen is open, and no money can enter"; Human nature is distorted by interests, "there are straight trees in the mountains, but there are no straight people in the world"; Sophistication leads people to guess. "It's hard to paint a tiger's skin but a bone, and people know its face but not its heart"; Good and evil are inseparable. "Going into the mountains is not afraid of hurting the tiger, but it is a double-edged sword." Augmented sages highly summarize the dark phenomena in many aspects of society and display them coldly in front of readers. Most of the sentences in Augmented Essays come from such subsets as classics and history, poems and songs, opera novels and scholars' miscellaneous notes. Their thoughts and concepts are directly or indirectly derived from Confucian and Taoist classics. In a broad sense, it is a popular version of the "classic" that appeals to both refined and popular tastes. You can read it without explanation, or you can understand the thoughts and life wisdom of the classics by reading augmented sages. Augmented Xianwen is an anthology of proverbs.
Background:
Zhuge Liang sent messengers to lobby Wu and Shu to unite against Cao. Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's cleverness and always wanted to find an excuse to kill him. At a banquet, Zhou Yu deliberately said to Zhuge Liang, "Mr. Kong Ming, you are right when I recite a poem. If you are right, you will get a reward. How about beheading if you can't? " Zhuge Liang smiled indifferently: "There is no joke in the army. Please give an order." Zhou Yu was overjoyed and said, "Water is a stream, and it is ridiculous without water. If you remove the water from the stream and add the bird, it is a chicken. A successful cat is better than a tiger, and a falling phoenix is worse than a chicken. " Zhuge Liang said casually: "There is wood, it is chess, and there is no wood, it is chess. If you remove the wood from the edge of the chess, it is bullying. Longyou shallow water was beaten by shrimp, and the tiger fell to Pingyang and was bullied by dogs. "
Zhou Yu was furious, but because of what he said before, it was inconvenient to attack. He added: "If you have hands, you will twist, and if you don't have hands, you will be ugly. If you remove the twisted hand, you are a girl. There are ugly women in Longzhong, and it is difficult to pick one woman in a hundred. " ? Zhuge Liang laughed at his wife Huang Achou's ugliness. He immediately replied: "There is wood as a bridge, and there is no wood as a bridge. If you remove the wood from the bridge, you will add a girl. Miss Wu in the river is a big girl, and Cao Cao's copper finches lock up two girls. " Zhou Yu knew that he was mocking his wife, and he was furious and wanted to attack several times.
When the situation was tense, Lu Su said aside: "There is wood and it is also a trough, and there is no wood and it is also Cao. If the wood at the edge of the trough is removed, it will be bad to add rice. Today's plan is to break Cao Cao, and Long Hudou is not bad! " When the poem is over, everyone cheers together.
Introduction to Zhuge Liang:
Zhuge Liang, also known as Kongming and Wolong (also known as Long Fu) and Langya Yang Du (now yinan county, Linyi City, Shandong Province), was the prime minister of Shu and Han Dynasties during the Three Kingdoms period, an outstanding politician, strategist, inventor and writer. When he was alive, he was named Hou of Wuxiang, and after his death, he pursued loyalty to Hou of Wuxiang. The Eastern Jin regime made him the King of Wuxing. Zhuge Liang devoted himself to the Shu-Han regime until he died. Representative works include "Former Teacher's Watch", "Rear Teacher's Watch" and "Command Book". He once invented the wooden ox and the flowing horse, and transformed the crossbow, which can make ten arrows with one crossbow. He died in Wuzhangyuan, Baoji in 234. Zhuge Liang was highly respected in later generations, becoming a model of loyal ministers and the embodiment of wisdom. Chengdu, Baoji, Hanzhong, Nanyang and other places have Wuhou Temple, and Du Fu wrote Shu Xiang to praise Zhuge Liang.
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