Sell dog meat(guà yáng tóu，mài gǒu ròu)

Sell dog meat

Hanging sheep's head and selling dog's meat comes from the book of Yanzi's spring and Autumn Annals, which says, "the emperor's envoys take it inside, but forbid it outside. It's just like hanging cattle's head at the door and selling horse's breast inside." Volume 16 of five Lantern Festival yuan written by Shi Puji in Song Dynasty: "hanging sheep's head, selling dog meat, bad backward, early almost out."

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This proverb comes from Yanzi spring and Autumn Annals. In the spring and Autumn period, Qi linggong liked the ladies in court to wear men's clothes. As soon as this trend started, the women of the state of Qi imitated it and made many jokes about men and women. For fear that the reputation of Qi would be affected by the immorality of linggong, he urged all localities to ban women disguised as men. However, he encountered the embarrassing situation of "not being able to stop". Yan Zi said: "the king advocates that women dress up as men in the palace. But in the whole country, it is strictly prohibited. It's like some meat shops have ox heads hanging outside, but they sell horse meat inside. How can they live in this way? If you ban it in the palace, how dare women outside disobey it As soon as linggong heard that he was right, he carried it out. In less than one month, the national atmosphere took on a new look. Later, some people put Yanzi's "hanging cattle head in the door and selling horse meat inside.". Extended to "hanging sheep's head, selling dog meat."

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This is exactly what the die hards in China are now. The constitutionalism in their words is nothing more than "selling dog meat with sheep's head". (Mao Zedong's new democratic constitutionalism)

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