Selling dog meat(guà yáng tóu mài gǒu ròu)

Selling dog meat

Selling dog meat with sheep's head is a Chinese idiom, which refers to the difference between inside and outside. It is used to describe selling inferior goods in the name of good. It's a mixture of appearances and deceit. The language comes from the five Lantern Festival.

explain

He is a sheep, but he sells dog meat. It is a metaphor to use a good name as a cover, but in fact it is not worthy of the name or bad. The metaphor is different from the inside. [source] Volume 16 of Wu Deng Hui Yuan written by Shi Puji of Song Dynasty: "hanging sheep's head, selling dog's meat, the bad is backward, the early is almost extinct." Volume 31 of xuchuandenglu by Shi Weibai of Song Dynasty: "if you hang a sheep's head and sell dog meat, you will know what evidence it has." [example] the current diehards in China are just like this. The constitutionalism in their words is nothing but "～". (Mao Zedong's new democratic constitutionalism)

appreciation

allusion

Linggong is a good woman, but her husband is a good one. The people of our country do their best. The official said: "if a woman is decorated with a man, she should split her clothes and break her belt." Break clothes and belts, and look at each other. When Yanzi saw it, the Duke asked, "what is it that I make officials forbid women and men to act as ornaments, break their belts, and look at each other but not stop?"? "Yanzi said to him," the emperor's envoys should take it inside, and the prohibition should be outside. It's just like hanging the head of cattle at the door, and selling horse meat inside. Why the public does not make the internal service, then the external dare not do it. "Gong said:" good. "It's not more than a month, but it's more than a month.

translation

Qi linggong likes women to dress as men. All women in the country wear men's clothes. Linggong officials banned them, and pointed out: "a woman dressed as a man tears her clothes and tears her belt." Although people have seen people tear their clothes and tear their belts, they still can't be forbidden. When Yanzi came to see him, linggong asked, "I sent officials to forbid women to dress as men, tear their clothes, and tear off their belts. I can't stop seeing them with my own eyes. Why? " Yan Zi replied, "if you allow women in the palace to dress as men, but forbid them outside the palace, it's like hanging a cow's head at the door and selling horse meat inside. Why don't you let women in the palace not dress as men, then no one dares outside." Linggong said, "good." It is forbidden for women to dress as men in the palace. After a month, there will be no women dressed as men in the whole country.

development

Strictly speaking, some packaging masters and advertisers have played an invisible role in boosting the flames. Through a period of "Consumer Rights Day" to crack down on fake activities, it seems that the phenomenon of "hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat" may be converged. However, you don't see that "selling dog meat with a sheep's head" is a deep and pernicious one. Now it has penetrated into many fields such as politics, economy, science, culture, education and so on. For example, "hang up" the "sheep's head" introduced from the investigation and "sell" the "dog's meat" of public travel, US dollars and foreign girls; "hang up" the "sheep's head" of reform and opening up and concept renewal, "sell" the "dog's meat" of money worship, hedonism and extreme egoism; "optimize the combination of institutional reform, that is, draw a line with people, let people be relatives, eliminate dissidents; streamline the system The diversion of personnel in the organization is a great reorganization centered on "I" and a big queue. You don't like it. "Tear down the temple to send the Bodhisattva." the sign is red. Everything is for the sake of stability and reform The essence is "Sima Zhao's mind is known to all.". "Hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat" was first seen in "linggong and good woman" in "Yanzi Chunqiu · neipianzaxia"; "the emperor's envoys served it inside, but forbidden it outside, just like hanging cattle's head at the door, and sold it to horse breast inside". Later, "Shangshu" in "baiguanzhi 3" of the later Han Dynasty Liu Zhao's notes are attached to the regulations of "order history": "hanging ox's head, selling horse breast, stealing plantations, Confucius language". Although it's not "selling dog meat with sheep's head", the meaning is very clear: those who sell horse meat with cow's head say Confucius's words and do the business of bandit Liu Zhi. the main idea is that only by setting an example in everything can we ensure the effective implementation of policies.

usage

This is an Education Bookstore, but what it sells are all pirated novels. It's like selling dog meat with sheep's head! at present, some businesses are just selling dog meat with sheep's head, and the advertising is louder than anything.

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