each trying to cheat or outwit the other(ěr yú wǒ zhà)

each trying to cheat or outwit the other

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, means to deceive and distrust each other. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the 15th year of Xuangong.

Analysis of Idioms

To be honest with each other

The origin of Idioms

In the spring and Autumn period, Zuo Qiuming wrote in the 15th year of Xuangong in Zuo Zhuan: "from Song Dynasty to Chuping, Hua Yuan is the essence. The League said, "I have no deceit, I have no fear."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive. It has a derogatory meaning and describes playing with each other. example in China, the leaders of the southern churches are also suspicious of each other, intriguing and intriguing, which is disturbing. (Chapter 17 of Ren Guangchun's Wu Xu Chi Xue Ji)

Idioms and allusions

In the original text (bc595), Shen Zhou, a chuzi envoy, was employed by Qi, saying: "there is no false way in Song Dynasty." He also made his son Feng employed in Jin Dynasty, not in Zheng Dynasty. Shen Zhou attacked the Song Dynasty with the battle of Mencius and Zhu, saying, "Zheng Zhao and song are deaf, Jin envoys will not be harmed, and I will die." The king said, "kill the girl, I will cut it." See the rhinoceros. And song, Song people stop. Hua Yuan said, "if you don't pass me by, you will be mean to me. I am despicable, and I will die. If you kill his messengers, you will attack me; if you attack me, you will die. It's a death. " It's killing. When Chu Zi heard of it, he joined hands and rose up. He was suffocating, his sword was outside the bedroom door, and his car was in the city of puxu. In autumn and September, Chu Zi surrounded the Song Dynasty. ——The king of Chuzhuang sent Shenzhou to visit the state of Qi, saying: "don't borrow the road from the state of song." At the same time, King Zhuang of Chu sent his son Feng to visit the state of Jin. Because Shen Zhou offended the song state when he was hunting in Meng Zhu, he said to King Zhuang of Chu, "the state of Zheng is clear, the state of song is confused; the envoys going to Jin will not be hurt, but I will be killed." The king of Chu said, "if I kill you, I will attack the state of song." Shen Zhou entrusted his son Shen Xi to the king of Chu and set out. When Shenzhou arrived in the state of song, the state of song detained him. Hua Yuan, the ruling Minister of the state of song, said: "to pass through our country without borrowing from us is to regard our territory as the border town of the state of Chu. If we regard our country as the border town of Chu, we will be subjugated. If you kill the envoys of the state of Chu, the state of Chu will attack us. Attacking us is also a subjugation. Anyway, it's the same subjugation. " So he killed Shenzhou. When King Zhuang of Chu heard the news of Shen Zhou's killing, he stood up and ran back and forth. His entourage chased him to the corridor of the dormitory and asked him to put on his shoes. He chased him to the door of the dormitory and asked him to wear a sword. He chased him to the puxu market and asked him to sit in the car. In the autumn and September of that year, King Zhuang of Chu sent troops to encircle the state of song. (bc594) in the summer and may, when the Chu master was going to the Song Dynasty, Shen Xiji, the head of the king's horse, said, "don't be afraid of death and dare not abolish the king's life. How can the king abandon his words?" Wang can't answer. When Shen Shushi was a servant, he said, "if you build a house and fight against the tillers, the Song Dynasty will obey your orders." Follow it. The people of Song Dynasty were afraid, so they sent Hua Yuan to the master of Chu on the night of his death. They got up and said, "I'll tell you that I've changed my son's food, and I'll dissect my bones. Although the alliance under the city, there is a country to die, can not follow. Go thirty miles to me and listen to my orders. " Son against fear, and the alliance and the king. Back 30 Li, song and Chu Ping. Hua Yuan is the quality. League said: "I have no fraud, I have no fear." ——In the middle of the spring and Autumn period, the state of Chu dominated the Central Plains, and King Zhuang of Chu did not pay attention to the neighboring small states. Once, he sent Shen Zhou, a senior official, to the state of Qi to instruct him that when he passed through the state of song, he did not need to borrow his way. Shen Zhou estimated that in this way, he would offend the state of song, and he might be executed for it. But King Zhuang insisted that he should do so, and assured him that if he was executed by the state of song, he would send troops to attack the state of song and avenge him. Shen Zhou had no choice but to entrust his son Shen Xi (x ī) to the king of Zhuang, and then set out. As Shen Zhou expected, he was caught when he passed the state of song because he didn't borrow a road. After learning about the situation, Hua Yuan, the ruling doctor of the state of song, was very angry with King Zhuang for being so rude. He said to Duke Wen of song, "if you pass through the state of song without informing us, you will regard the state of song as a vassal state. When a dependent state is a subjugated state. If the envoys of Chu were killed and the state of Chu came to attack us, it would be nothing but subjugation. It's better to put the envoy of Chu to death than to do so! " Song Wengong agreed with Hua Yuan and ordered Shen Zhou to be executed. When the news reached the state of Chu, King Zhuang was so angry that he didn't even have time to wear his shoes or hang his sword, so he immediately ordered a crusade against the state of song. However, although song was a small country, it was not easy to defeat it. King Zhuang sent troops in the autumn of 595 BC and besieged the capital of the Song Dynasty until the summer of the next year. The Chu army was so frustrated that they decided to come back from the encirclement. Shen Xi, Shen Zhou's son, kowtowed in front of King Zhuang's horse and said, "my father knew he was going to die, and he didn't dare to disobey your orders. Now, do you put aside what you said before? " King Zhuang couldn't answer. At this time, Shen Shushi, a doctor who was driving for the king of Zhuang, said, "you can let the soldiers build houses and farm here, pretending to stay for a long time. In this way, the state of song would surrender for fear. " King Zhuang adopted Shen Shushi's strategy and implemented it. The people of the Song Dynasty were really afraid. Hua Yuan encouraged the garrison and the people to fight and starve rather than surrender. Late one night, Hua Yuan sneaked into the camp of the Chu army, sneaked into the camp of the commander-in-chief Zi fan of the Chu army, boarded his bed, called him up and said, "our king asked me to tell you about the current plight of the state of song: we have eaten all the food and grass, and we have exchanged dead children for food. The firewood has already been burned up. We use the broken bones as firewood. Even so, if you want to press us to make an alliance under the city, we would rather perish than accept it. If you can retreat for 30 Li, I'll do what you tell me! " After hearing this, Zifan was very afraid. He made a private agreement with Huayuan on the spot, and then reported it to Chuang Wang. King Zhuang originally wanted to withdraw, so he naturally agreed. The next day, King Zhuang ordered the Chu army to withdraw 30 Li. Therefore, peace was restored between song and Chu. Hua Yuan went to the camp of Chu to make an alliance and went to Chu as a hostage. The covenant says, "I will not deceive you, and you need not guard against me."

Chinese PinYin : ěr yú wǒ zhà