Baowengguanyuan(bào wèng guàn yuán)

Baowengguanyuan

Baowengguanyuan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à ow è nggu à NYU á n, which means to describe a simple and humble life. From Chuang Tzu, heaven and earth.

The origin of Idioms

It is said that when Zi Gong, a student of Confucius, visited Chu and returned to Jin and passed Hanyin, he saw an old man holding a jar to water vegetables again and again. He suggested that he use a machine to draw water. The old man didn't want to, and said: if you do this, you will have tact, "I don't know. I'm not ashamed to do it." See Zhuangzi, heaven and earth

Analysis of Idioms

The prime minister has a good command of the boat, the tiger dominates the Dragon pan, the four walls are desolate, the Yin and the cold are solid, the experience is simple, the shadow of the bed is shameful, the plot is broad, the virtue of the dragon is in the field, he dares to be angry but not to speak, and his words are true

Idiom usage

He is satisfied with the status quo and doesn't want to change the situation. He is willing to throw a pole and bait to the Weibin river. He is willing to hold a jar and irrigate a garden in Hanzhu. "Huan Sha Ji · Tan Yi" by Liang Chenyu in Ming Dynasty

Idioms and allusions

Source of allusion

In the fifth volume of Zhuangzi Ji Shi (Wai Pian · Tian Di), Zi Gong traveled to the south of Chu, to the south of Jin, and to the south of Hanyin. He saw a man in law digging a tunnel into a well for the nursery, holding a jar to irrigate it. He made a lot of efforts and got little success. Zi Gong said, "if you have a weapon here, you can soak a hundred beds a day. You can't do much but you can't do much. Don't you want to?" The gardener looked up at him and said, "what can I do?" Said: "chisel wood for the machine, after heavy before light, pull out water if pumping, such as the number of soup, its name for the soup." "I heard that my teacher said," if there is a machine, there must be something organic, and if there is an organic thing, there must be a mind. " If the mind is in the heart, it will be pure white unprepared; if the mind is pure white unprepared, it will be uncertain; if the mind is uncertain, it will not be carried by the Tao. I don't know. I'm ashamed to do it. " Zi Gong was ashamed to hide, but he was not.

Translation of allusions

Zigong traveled to the southern state of Chu and returned to the state of Jin. Passing through the southern edge of the Han River, he saw an old man making a border in the vegetable garden, digging a tunnel to the well and watering the ground with a water jar. He came and went with great effort and little effect. Zi Gong said: "now there is a kind of machine, which can water hundreds of vegetable beds every day, with little effort and many effects. Don't you want to try it, old man?" The old vegetable grower looked up at Zigong and said, "what should I do?" Zigong said: "it is made of wood. The back is heavy and the front is light. Lifting water is like pumping water from a well. It's as fast as boiling water spilling out. Its name is orange." The old vegetable grower changed his face and said with a sneer, "I heard from my teacher that with machines and things like that, there must be things like dexterity. With machines and things like that, there must be things like dexterity. If the changeable mind is kept in the mind, then the pure and empty mind that has not been contaminated by the secular world will not be complete; if the pure and empty mind is not complete, then the spirit will not be single-minded and stable; if the spirit cannot be single-minded and stable, the road will not enrich his heart. It's not that I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just ashamed to do that. " Zi Gong was so ashamed that he could not answer.

Idiom story

It is said that Zi Gong, a student of Confucius, saw an old man carrying a water jar to water vegetables again and again when he was traveling to Chu and returning to Jin and passing through Hanyin. He suggested that he use a machine to draw water. The old man didn't want to, and said, "if you do this, you will be smart. It's not that I don't know what to do, it's that I don't want to do it. "

Chinese PinYin : bào wèng guàn yuán