as strong as iron(gù ruò jīn tāng)

as strong as iron

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is g ù Ru ò J ī NT ā ng, which means a city made of metal and a moat formed by boiling water. The city and the position are very strong. It comes from Kuai Tong Zhuan in the history of Han Dynasty.

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attributive, complement; very strong. The fort at Dagukou, if it can be protected with his permission. Gao Yang's yanzhijing

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in Kuai Tong Zhuan of the Han Dynasty: "the border cities will be firmly guarded. They are all golden cities and cannot be attacked."

Idioms and allusions

One of the allusions

At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng, the leader of peasant uprising army, sent military officials to attack Zhao. Since Wuchen led his troops to attack Zhaodi in the north, he fought all the way. Wherever he went, heroes responded one after another, and the rebel army occupied most of Zhaodi. Wu Chen himself was also canonized as Wu Xinjun. At this time, the military minister led the army to attack Fanyang City, and Fanyang ordered Xugong to be ready to defend the city to the death. He built fortifications everywhere, ready to resist to the end. At that time, there was a very eloquent debater named Kuai Tong in fan Yangcheng (now Gucheng Town, Dingxing County, Baoding City, Hebei Province). When he learned that the military minister was already in the city, he went to see Xu Gong. He opened his mouth to express his grief to Xu Gong, and then congratulated him. Xu Gong was puzzled and asked why he did so. Kuai Tong said: "for more than ten years, my Lord has been acting as Fan Yang's order. Killing and looting have forced the people to separate their wives and children, causing the people to complain about you. Only because there were strict laws of the Qin Dynasty to stop you from calamities, the people have nothing to do with you. Now that the world is in chaos, the Qin method doesn't work, and the people still don't skin and bone you to avenge the past? But if adults listen to villains, they will not die, and they will be rich. " As soon as Fan Yang Ling heard this, he immediately asked him to give him some advice. Kuai Tong set out to see Wu Chen. At this time, Wu Chen was soliciting heroes from all over the world and was very willing to meet him. Kuai Tong said to Wu Chen: "when you come here, you must defeat fan Yangling before you can occupy fan Yangcheng. It's too much trouble. Now I have a plan to let you get the city of Fan Yang without a single soldier, and with only a piece of proclamation, you can get thousands of miles of land. I wonder if you want to hear it? " On hearing this, Wu Chen quickly asked, "why don't you want to listen to such a clever plan?" Kuai Tong said: "fan Yangling has heard that you are going to attack the city. He is reorganizing his troops and defending the city. But he is very afraid of death and greedy for official positions. The reason why he still refuses to surrender is that you killed all the officials guarding the city after you defeated ten cities and counties. He thinks that surrender is death, and defending the city is also death. Moreover, the city of Fan Yang is as solid as gold. I expect you will not be able to attack it for a while. Even if Fan Yang's people hate him and kill him in the uprising, they will be willing to take refuge with Wu Xinjun. Maybe they will fight to defend the city. Imagine for you that the best way is to pardon fan Yangling and give him a Hou seal. He is happy to be rich and will naturally be willing to open the city to surrender, and the people of fan Yangcheng do not dare to kill him at will. Don't you have this fan Yangcheng at your fingertips? You can also pick up fan Yangling in a luxury car and let him take the car to the nearby Shoucheng for a tour. The officials of nearby cities and counties know that they will not be beheaded after surrendering to the adults, and they can enjoy the glory and wealth. Then they will surrender to you soon. In this way, you don't need to spend any effort to get the world, and you don't need to fight to make the four sides submit. That's what I said about a clever plan to make the world with a piece of proclamation! " After listening to Kuai Tong's plan, Wu Chen thought it was very reasonable, so he acted according to his plan. Sure enough, soon after Fan Yang's surrender, the city watchmen who lived hundreds of miles nearby all surrendered to the military officials.

Allusion 2

Jintang village is located in guzhuangdian Township, 10km east of Fangcheng County, Henan Province, and on the north side of Guyi road. It is located in the crescent shaped area formed by Tuojiao River and Gaozhuang river. It is surrounded by water on three sides and land on one side. It is 450m long and 400m wide with a total area of 18000m2. There are about 780 villagers in five groups in the village. Jintang village has a long history and is a Neolithic site in primitive society. Unearthed are the red pottery pot with high collar in the middle and late Yangshao period, the red pottery tripod and cup with sand in the cylindrical shape, which are slightly square and duck beak shaped; the Dingkou and dingzu in Qujialing period; the dingzu, Leibo, eggshell shaped black pottery cup, gouge, hole Gaozu doubing, red pottery, kouyan, zengdi remnant pieces, perforated Bengdao in Longshan period; the gujishi, taohuan, taopaizi, ground perforated stone Dao in various periods According to textual research, stone axes, stone chisels, stone shovels, etc. are the three cultural sites of Yangshao, Qujialing and Longshan. Jintang village, formerly known as xiaojinzhuang, was a military stronghold on the northern border in the Shang Dynasty. The garrison general, named Jintang, was stable and prosperous for a long time because of its strong city defense, easy defense and difficult attack. In order to show his merit, the king of Shang named "Jintang village" according to the original name "Jin" and the situation of surrounded by water on three sides. He praised and said: "the frontier defense of the great Shang is as firm as the village guarded by the great general of Jintang, and will never worry." After gradual evolution, "solid as gold" is used to describe the city defense is solid, unbreakable, idiom "solid as gold" allusion is derived from this. according to the inscription: in order to prevent banditry, Liu Yejun, a scholar of Baiying village, called on 53 nearby villages to raise funds and donate labor to rebuild the village. It also imitates the antithetical couplets and horizontal inscriptions of the Northern Song Dynasty in the west gate of Jintang village. It covers an area of 180000 square meters and is a north-south rectangle. The wall is 7 meters high and the top is 5 meters wide. There is a pheasant stack every 2 meters around it. There are 5 watchtowers. There are 2 meters high dam walls around the wall, one east gate and one west gate, and one small gate in the southeast corner. It was completed in the first year of Tongzhi. the existing walls are built along the steep river bank according to the terrain, which is majestic and solid. There is a couplet engraved on the gate of Xizhai. The first couplet is "Jin Cheng Yong Gu Zhi Han Zhai 3000", the second couplet is "Tang Chi encircles Bu Ya Qin Guan Bai Er", and the horizontal inscription is "Gu Ruo Jin Tang". There are ancient walls, moats and stone tablets of Jintang village. In the village, there are Yan's courtyard built in the early Qing Dynasty and guanye temple in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chinese PinYin : gù ruò jīn tāng