Look at the grass(cǎo lú sān gù)

Look at the grass

In Chinese, Pinyin is C ǎ ol ú s ā ng ù, which means to invite or visit people sincerely. It's from chushibiao.

Analysis of Idioms

San Gu Mao Lu

The origin of Idioms

Chu Shi Biao, written by Zhuge Liang in Shu of the Three Kingdoms states: "the former emperors did not regard their ministers as despicable. They were indecent and wronged. They looked at their ministers in the thatched cottage three times."

Idiom usage

Contractive; as an object; with commendatory meaning. In the book of Jin, volume 92, biography of Yu, there are three examples: "the Yi and I are in harmony, the Han Dynasty is in Xiao Zhang's place; the grass and the cottage are in three places, smelling like Lan Fang. 」

Idioms and allusions

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei, the left General of the Han Dynasty, paid a visit to Zhuge Liang three times. The content of their conversation was "the thatched cottage pair" (the strategic decision of dividing the world into three parts). During the winter of 207 A.D. to the spring of 208 A.D., Liu Bei, who was stationed in Xinye (now Xinye, Henan Province), took the generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to Zhuge cottage in Longzhong (now Longzhong, Xiangyang) of Deng County, Nanyang County three times to ask Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain to help. Later, it was spread as a good story and gradually became an allusion, which was recorded in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, the annals of Shu, the biography of Zhuge Liang, and Chushi Biao. It is often used to refer to sincerely inviting and visiting talented people again and again.

Chinese PinYin : cǎo lú sān gù