Fire at the gate of the city(chéng mén shī huǒ，yāng jí chí yú)

Fire at the gate of the city

It's an idiom that the city gate is on fire, which affects the fish in the pond. The pronunciation is ch é NGM é NSH ī Hu ǒ, y ā NGJ í ch í y ú. When the city gate is on fire, everyone goes to the moat to get water. When the water is used up, the fish also dies. It refers to the loss or disaster caused by being involved.

explain

Disaster: bring disaster. Pool: moat. There was a fire at the gate of the city. Everyone went to the moat to get water. When the water was used up, the fish died. The fire at the gate will bring disaster to the fish in the pond: it means that innocent people are implicated and suffer disaster.

source

Du Bi of the Northern Qi Dynasty wrote in Xi Liang Wen: "but I'm afraid that the state of Chu will perish the ape, cause disaster to the trees, and the city gate will be on fire, which will bring disaster to the fish." "Guangyun" also says: Chi Zhongyu is a surname. He lived in the gate of Song Dynasty. The gate was on fire, extending to his home. Zhongyu was burned to death.

example sentence

For example: if you are an ordinary person, but unfortunately you were born in an extraordinary time, you will cause a lot of right and wrong for no reason. (Colin's "looking back at the flow of blood and tears"

Chinese PinYin : chéng mén shī huǒ，yāng jí chí yú