take to farming after discarding arms(dài niú pèi dú)

take to farming after discarding arms

Dainiupeidu is a Chinese idiom, pronounced D à ini ú P è ID ú, which refers to the change of industry to agriculture. It comes from volume 89 of Hanshu, biography of Xunli · biography of Gong Sui.

interpretation

Dainiupeidu originally refers to the emperor Xuandi of the Han Dynasty, when Gong, the governor of the Bohai Sea, lured the peasants with swords to give up armed struggle and engage in farming. Later generations used the metaphor of "carrying a cow and carrying a calf" to refer to the canon of returning to agriculture.

source

Volume 89 of the book of the Han Dynasty (Biography of Xunli · biography of Gong SUI): after Emperor Xuan ascended the throne for a long time, the left and right counties of the Bohai Sea were hungry, and there were thieves, and two thousand stones could not be made of birds. When he was elected to be able to govern, the imperial examination of prime minister was available, and he was regarded as the governor of Bohai Sea. When Sui was more than seventy years old, he was summoned. His appearance was short. When Emperor Xuan saw it, he did not listen to what he had heard. He said, "I am very worried about the chaos in the Bohai Sea. Why do you want to stop the thieves and call me? So he said to him, "the sea is far away, and it is not holy. The people are trapped in hunger and cold, but the officials are not compassionate. Therefore, his Majesty's son steals his Majesty's troops in the middle ear of Huangchi. If you want to win the evil, will you be safe? When he heard that he was right, he said very much, and answered, "if you choose virtuous people, you will have peace.". So he said, "when I heard that it is better to govern the people in disorder than to govern the people in disorder, I should not be in a hurry; I should only slow down, and then I can govern.". I would like the prime minister to be the censor, and I would like everything to be convenient. Xu Yan, the master, gave him gold and a biography. When they arrived at the Bohai Sea, they heard that the new prefect had arrived and sent out troops to meet them. So they all sent them back and sent them to the county to arrest the thieves. All those who hold hoe and hook tools are good people. Officials have no questions. Those who hold weapons are thieves. So I went to the mansion by bike. The county was quiet, and the thieves were all gone. The Bohai Sea also suffered a lot of calamities. Hearing of the order, the Bohai Sea immediately disbanded, abandoned its crossbow and held a hook and hoe. So the robbers knew that they were peaceful, and the people were happy. Then he opened his storehouse to the poor, chose good officials, and raised his army. It was seen that the common customs were luxurious, good and last, but not the fields, but the rate of frugality, and persuaded the people to farm mulberry trees, so that they could grow a tree of Yu, 100 bun, fifty, a border of leek, two mothers * and five chickens. There are people who carry swords. They sell swords to buy cattle and swords to buy calves. They say, "why do you wear calves with oxen! "In spring and summer, we have to move towards the fields, and in autumn and winter, we have to concentrate on the classes. Labor to follow, there are livestock in the county, officials and people are rich. There is no end to lawsuits.

Examples

Song Sushi's "Zhang Zuoshi sent inkstone to counter the sword is to return to it with the sword of his poem's pawn": "the old man who cuts the dragon and stabs the tiger is powerless, and the officials who lead the ox and wear the calf are the masters of it." Chen Shu Shizu Ji: "since the Qing Kou Rong, many people are wandering, the people lose their share of the land, the scholars have Peidu ridicule." Song zenggong's YUEWU hall poem: "Liu Jian was surprised to throw a pot of music, and sang an Pei Du line."

Chinese PinYin : dài niú pèi dú