White fish and red Aconitum(bái yú chì wū)

White fish and red Aconitum

Baiyu chiwu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á iy ú ch ì w ū, meaning auspicious omen. It's from the historical records of Zhou Benji.

The origin of Idioms

Zhou Benji in historical records: "the king of Wu crossed the river, the middle stream, the white fish jumped into the king's boat, and the king of Wu bowed down to take it as a sacrifice. After crossing the river, there is fire from the top to the bottom. As for the king's house, it flows to black, its color is red, and its voice and soul are cloudy. "

Idiom usage

It's a good sign. examples the Fu of white fish, red and black, the auspicious of gold and purple jade, is rich and wonderful, and the words are rich and elegant, which is not helpful to the classic but helpful to the article. In the Southern Dynasty, Liang and Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long Zheng Wei

Idiom story

According to historical records, in the ninth year of King Wu's succession to the throne, King Zhou of Shang Dynasty was cruel and unruly. So King Wu of Zhou gathered strength and prepared to seize the world. He reviewed the troops at the Yellow River Ferry and joined the princes. When King Wu was crossing the Yellow River, the boat was in the middle of the river. Suddenly, a white fish jumped onto King Wu's boat. King Wu leaned over to pick up the fish and sacrificed it to heaven. After crossing the Yellow River, another fire came down from the sky, fell on the house where King Wu lived, kept turning, and finally turned into a red bird with a loud voice. The Shang Dynasty always valued white, which represented the royal power of the Shang Dynasty; the boat and Zhou Tongyin symbolized the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, indicating that the army of the Shang Dynasty would return to the Zhou Dynasty. At this time, red auspicious birds appeared in the sky above the house where King Wu lived, which indicated that the kingdom of Zhou was going to be a blockbuster and the world of Shang was going to be owned by Zhou. Two years later, King Wu formally conquered Zhou, captured the land and established the Zhou Dynasty. From this, the story is endowed with mystery, and white fish and red crows become auspicious signs.

Chinese PinYin : bái yú chì wū