set free a tiger back to the mountains(fàng hǔ guī shān)

set free a tiger back to the mountains

Let the tiger go back to the mountain, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f à NGH à Gu à sh à n, which means to put the tiger back to the mountain. It's like putting the bad guys back in their nests and leaving the root of the trouble behind. It comes from the biography of Lingling sages by Sima Biao of Jin Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to Sima Biao's biography of Lingling sages in Jin Dynasty, "Zhang sent FA Zheng to meet Liu Bei. Ba admonished him and said," Bei is a male. If you enter, you will do harm. You can't go inside. " After entering, Ba Fu remonstrated, "if you want to ask for Zhang Lu, you will release the tiger in the mountains." Zhang doesn't listen. "

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: to raise the tiger for danger [antonym]: to eliminate evil and root

Idiom usage

It refers to the cause of the disaster. example if one day goes away, it will be like ～, the dragon will return to the sea, which is self inflicted! The wedge of Zhu Youdun's Yi Yong CI Jin in Ming Dynasty

Idioms and allusions

Story one

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei went to Cao Cao in a difficult situation. Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's counselor, knows that Liu Bei is not a layman, and urges Cao Cao to get rid of Liu Bei as soon as possible. In order to paralyze Cao Cao, Liu Bei pretended to grow vegetables without politics. After Cao Cao killed Lv Bu, Liu Bei asked to lead troops to attack Yuan Shu. Cao Cao gave 50000 troops and horses, and Liu Bei left Cao Cao to set up his own banner.

Story 2

In the 33rd year of Duke mu of Qin Dynasty, Qin generals Meng Mingshi, Bai Yibing, and Xi Qishu were captured by Jin army's military division Xianfu and prepared to sacrifice them to the imperial temple to show their military achievements. Wen Lei, jinxianggong's stepmother, heard that her family's general had been captured. She tried to persuade jinxianggong, and finally let them go. When he first heard the news, he was eating. He was so angry that he vomited all the food he had just eaten. He went to Duke Jinxiang angrily and asked, "where are the prisoners in the state of Qin?" Jin Xianggong replied, "I let them go according to my mother's order." Xianfu spat angrily on the face of Duke Jinxiang and said, "he is so ignorant. We tried our best to catch them, but you believed the woman's words and let them go easily. It's called letting the tiger go back to the mountain. It's too late for you to regret." At this time, Duke Xianggong of Jin came to realize that when he asked people to catch him again, he had already disappeared. After Meng Mingshi and others returned home, they were not blamed and still held military power. Three years later, Meng Mingshi and others defeated the state of Jin, and the state of Qin finally became the new overlord.

Chinese PinYin : fàng hǔ guī shān