Golden Horse(bì shì jīn mǎ)

Golden Horse

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is B ì sh ì J ī nm ǎ, which means to use it as a metaphor for escaping from the affairs of the world as a court official. It comes from the funny biographies of historical records.

The origin of Idioms

According to the records of the historian, funny Biographies: "when he was sitting at the table, he was drunk. According to the local song, he said:" Lu Shen was in the common, and he avoided the golden horse gate. In the palace, you can escape from the world. Why go deep in the mountains and under the Artemisia forest? "

Idioms and allusions

origin

In shuoxing Hall of the 126 funny biographies in historical records, Lang said, "everyone is crazy about his husband." Shuo said: "such as Shuo, the so-called seclusion in the court idle also. In ancient times, people lived in the mountains When he was sitting at the table, he was drunk. According to the local song, he said, "Lu Shen is popular and avoids the world. In the palace, you can avoid the whole world. Why go deep in the mountains and under the Artemisia It is called "jinmamen" because there are bronze horses beside the gate.

translation

One day Dongfang Shuo passed by the hall, and Lang officials said to him, "people think Mr. Wang is a madman." Dongfang Shuo said, "people like me are people who live in seclusion in the imperial court. In ancient times, people lived in seclusion in the mountains. " He often sat in the banquet, and when he had a good drink, he would climb on the ground and sing: "seclusion in the secular world, seclusion in the golden horse gate. You can live in seclusion in the palace to protect yourself. Why live in seclusion in the mountains or in the cottages? " The so-called Golden Horse Gate is the gate of the official office. There are bronze horses beside the gate, so it is called "Golden Horse Gate".

interpretation

Dongfang Shuo climbs on the ground and sings "Lu Shen is popular, avoiding the Golden Horse Gate". Later, he used "the golden horse" and "the Golden Gate" to say that he escaped from the world affairs as a court official.

Analysis of Idioms

Golden Gate

Idiom usage

Fan Xun, a biography of Wen Yuan in the book of the Northern Qi Dynasty, said: "when people ridicule their silence, they often obey the words of Dongfang Shuo. Lu Shen is worldly and has avoided the world. Why is it necessary to stay in the mountains? Therefore, he borrowed Master Lu Shen as the master to draw up Ke Nan and make Ke Jiao He Jingming's "Doctor Li's journey" in Ming Dynasty: "in front of the golden gate, you always ask the grass" Xuan " Shen Yuancang's miscellaneous chants of the Qing Dynasty (2): "the golden gate of refuge is not deep, and the Chinese are short and brown." The second poem of Tang Shunzhi in the Ming Dynasty, traveling with huangfuzi in Hengshan, is: "fortunately, I received the guests from Jinmen, and I climbed up to guishurong." In Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi wrote a poem: "in the early days, there were Golden Horses, and in the late days, they were Shangluo Weng." Song Ouyang Xiu's "notes on poetry on June 1": "(Xie Bochu's poem):" when the country was in trouble, the golden horse was left behind, and the new poetry was passed on to zhuzhiniang. "

Chinese PinYin : bì shì jīn mǎ