It's hard to be honest(dào páng kǔ lǐ)

It's hard to be honest

KULI, a Chinese idiom, pronunciation D à op á NGK à L à, a Chinese idiom, refers to the KULI by the way, which is not picked by the passers-by. It refers to the abandoned and useless things or people. It comes from Liu Yiqing's "new sayings of the world · elegant sixth" in the Southern Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, wrote in new sayings of the world, the sixth of Elegance: "when Wang Rong was seven years old, he tried to travel with the children. He saw that many of the children of the plum tree on the roadside broke their branches, and the children raced to get them, but he didn't move. When people asked, they said, "the tree is by the side of the road and has many children, so it must be bitter for Li." Take it as it is.

Idiom story

It is said that Wang Rong was very clever since he was a child. When he was 7 years old, he once went out to play with some friends and found several plum trees on the roadside. The branches of the trees were covered with plums, and they all looked ripe. the friends happily scrambled to break the branches and pick the plums. Only Wang Rong stood aside and did not move. He was asked why he didn't pick plums. Wang Rong replied with a smile: "the plum on that tree must be bitter. You can't eat it even if you pick it. You see, all these plum trees grow by the road. There are so many plums on them, but no one picks them. Otherwise, they are bitter. Can they be like this? "

Idiom usage

"To know the king first is to dry up the well, I should have been as bitter as Li." (song Sushi's "the return of King Ding's moving to the south of Xiyun)", "Fuyang is ashamed of Jiayu, Daodi is bitter about Li.". Huang Tingjian's poem Liu Hong Zhan is as beautiful as Su Zizhan's nephew. "It's like Li beside the road, and it's bitter." Fan Chengda's Ci Yun Gebo mountain farewell rhyme

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