drop-dead gorgeous(chén yú luò yàn)

drop-dead gorgeous

The Chinese idiom ch é NY ú Lu ò y à n in pinyin means that when a fish sees it sink to the bottom, a goose sees it land on a sandbar. It describes a beautiful woman. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.

Idioms and allusions

Mao Jia is a beautiful woman of Yue State in the spring and Autumn period, which is similar to that in the age of Xi Shi. It is said that she is the concubine of Gou Jian, king of Yue. At first, people praised Mao's portrait more than Xi Shi. She should be the original image of "sunfish" and the embodiment of beauty. Liji has lost her test. Therefore, the original "sunken fish" and "wild geese" should refer to "maojia" and "Liji", not "Xishi" and "Wang Zhaojun". Of course, Chuang Tzu's Qi Wu Lun also mentions Xi Shi, saying that "Li and Xi Shi are very strange, and the way is one." Ugly women and beautiful women, as well as other strange things, are inseparable from each other from the perspective of Tao. He also told the story of "Dongshi imitates Mei" in Zhuangzi Tianyun. "Han Feizi · Xianxue" said: "therefore, it is not good for me to be good at maojia, the beauty of Xi Shi, but it is good for me to use Zhize and Fendai There is a saying in Guanzi Xiaoming that "Mao Yi and Xi Shi are the beauties in the world. They are full of resentment and can't be regarded as good." "Huainanzi" said that "today's husband Mao Jia, Xi Shi, the beauty of the world." However, in Huainanzi, there are also those who put Xishi in front of them, saying that "Xishi Maoyi is not the same in appearance, and the world calls her beautiful." In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Bian rang's "Zhang Hua Fu" said: "carrying the weak wrist of Xizi, supporting the plain elbow of Maopin." Later, song Zhiwen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem: "the birds are amazing, the pines are amazing, the fish are afraid of sinking the lotus." Since then, the world has described women's beauty as "sinking fish and falling geese". "The appearance of a fallen goose and a fallen fish, the appearance of a flower and a closed moon" has also become an idiom to describe women's beauty in classical novels.

The origin of Idioms

Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun: "Mao Yi and Li Ji are the beauty of human beings; fish see deep, birds see high, and elk see sudden decision. Who knows the right color of the world?"

Idiom usage

One of the features of the two of them is the face of ～, the other is the face of closing the moon and blushing the flowers. The twelfth chapter of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : chén yú luò yàn