receive soldiers with baskets of rice and vessels of congee(dān sì hú jiāng)

receive soldiers with baskets of rice and vessels of congee

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is d ā NSH í h ú Ji ā ng, which means that the people welcome their beloved army with rice and soup. It describes the situation that the army is warmly supported and welcomed by the masses. It comes from Mencius, the first king of Liang Hui.

Idiom explanation

Food: food; pulp: soup. The people welcomed their beloved army with rice in chopsticks and soup in pots. It describes the situation that the army is warmly supported and welcomed by the masses. The vessel is round and woven with bamboo or reed; it has a cover and a small capacity. It is usually only for one person. Mencius · Liang Hui Wang Xia: "to meet the king's teacher with food and water." This is its earliest source. Zhu Xi's note: "Dao, bamboo ware. Food, food. " In the 25th year of Zhaogong, the biography of Gongyang: "Gaozi was the master of food and food, and had four kinds of preserved food." He Xiu's note: "the bamboo, the reed, is round, which is called the bamboo." "He", article. Yongye, the Analects of Confucius, praises Confucius's noble and miserable life of Yan Yuan: "a pot of food, a pot of drink, in the shabby lane, people can't bear to worry, but they can't change their happiness." If one person eats one sheath, the accumulation will be small. It has a cover, so it is also suitable for laymen to hold the belt. In the second year of Xuangong in Zuozhuan, Zhao Dun, a senior official of the state of Jin, fed yisang hungry people with food and said, "for food and meat, including Ligularia." Ligularia is a kind of pouch with a middle opening, two ends of which can be put on both shoulders. Zhao Dun gave hungry people a piece of food and meat (the meat is put in the sheath) and then put it into Ligularia. A pot is a wine container with a lid. In the inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, this character is a pictograph with a cover, an ear and a ring foot. There are also square, flat, gourd shaped, more round with flow. The round and flat pots unearthed from the tomb of Zhongshan king in Hebei Province contain Turquoise and black liquid. They are determined to be composed of ethanol, fat, sugar and other ingredients, so there is no doubt that they contain wine. In ancient times, the pot was often used as a wine container. It is said that it can hold one Dendrobium. "Poetry · Daya · Hanyi" said: "show father preserves, clear wine hundred pots." "Han Feizi Wai Chu Shuo upper right": "the wine in the pot is not clear, the raw meat is not cloth." The so-called wine, that is, wine storage, not directly mouth drink, generally use a spoon or pour the pot into the cup, Jue and other drinking utensils. The pot is also often used as a food storage device to hold bubble rice, which can be carried out as food. In the 25th year of Duke Fu in Zuo Zhuan, it is said that "in the past, when Zhao Dynasty was declining, he used to eat a pot for dinner "Dinner", meal, "pot dinner", bubble rice. "Path discouraged", line hungry. According to the sentence, you should be honest and benevolent. This makes it clear that many ordinary people hold a vessel with water soaked rice in it, and there may be dried vegetables on it, such as preserved vegetables, prunes, Potamogeton crispus, etc., one vessel for one person to eat. Food should have drink, so there is "pot pulp". That is wine or water, "Mencius" this sentence sun Shu quoted "Shiming" said: "pulp, water also, drink also. Or cloud slurry, wine also The pot contains wine or water. The pot is a wine container for several people to drink together. Therefore, "food and drink" is a typical expression of both food and drink, which shows the enthusiasm of the people working in the army, so it has been used in later generations.

The origin of Idioms

Mencius · Liang Hui Wang Shang: "to meet the king's teacher with food and water."

Analysis of Idioms

The word "Shi" in "food in pot paste" is pronounced as "s" in "modern Chinese Dictionary". Read sh í in Cihai.

Chinese PinYin : dān sì hú jiāng