The tortoise crane has a long life(guī hè xiá shòu)

The tortoise crane has a long life

Guihe xiashou, a Chinese idiom, is written in Chinese Pinyin as Gu ī h è Xi á sh ò u, which means Ode to longevity. I wish you a long life. From baopuzi Duisu.

Idiom explanation

Ya: for a long time. I wish you a long life.

Idioms and allusions

The third part of "seven poems about immortals" in Volume 21 of selected works of Zhaoming Dynasty is: "jade plays with sweet potato, and its appearance is more fresh. The trees are high, and the mountain is covered. There is a quiet man in the world, whistling quietly and smoothing the strings. Let's enjoy the outside of Lingxiao, chew pistil and pour out the spring. The red pine is near the upper reaches of the river. On the left side, he puffed up the sleeves of Fuqiu and on the right side, he patted the shoulder of Hongya. May I ask the mayfly generation, how would you like to know the year of the tortoise and crane? In Tang Dynasty, Li Shan quoted "Essentials of health preservation" as saying: "there are thousands of longevity of turtles and cranes, and there are also things of longevity. According to Taoism, cranes bend their necks and breathe, turtles hide and choke, so it is longevity. "Baopuzi" Volume 3 "Nei Pian Dui Su" ~ 40 ~ or it is difficult for people to say, "Lao Peng is among the people, while pines and cypresses are among the trees. How can we learn from nature? Baopuzi said, "if you cultivate nature, don't be wise to others. Therefore, those who reach the shallow can use all things, and those who get the deep can see for a long time. Knowing how to prolong the life of the medicine, he took it for immortality. He knows the longevity of turtles and cranes, so he follows the way to increase his age. The branches and leaves of pine and cypress are different from those of other trees. Tortoise and crane are different from other insects. As for Mr. Peng, he is still a human ear. He is not a different kind of person, but an elder. Because of his virtue, he is unnatural. Trees cannot imitate pines and cypresses, and insects cannot imitate turtles and cranes. If a man has a clear mind and can practice Peng Lao's way, he can do the same thing with him. If it is said that there is no immortal in the world, however, according to the previous philosophers, nearly a thousand people have surnames, and there are Shi as the origin and end, which is not empty words. It is said that all of them are endowed with different Qi. However, it is said that all of them are served by teachers and are not born to know. If you can't learn Taoism, you can change your appearance, swallow a knife and spit out a fire, sit down and die, raise clouds and fog, summon insects and snakes, gather fish together, make thirty-six stones into water, eliminate jade into water, break gold into slurry, enter the abyss without touching, move the blade without hurting, and transform into illusions. There are more than nine hundred things you can do. All of them work. What's the only way you can not believe in immortals! There are many taboos to immortality. Since there is no ambition to surpass the world, powerful talent, can not keep it. He may be quite kind-hearted and suspicious. If he quits in the middle of the way, he will be called immortal. If he can't get an ear, he will never get an ear. According to the immortal Scripture, if you take pills and keep one, you will be able to finish with heaven, return the essence to the fetus, and prolong your life. This is all the way to speak. The civil gentleman is not ungrateful inside, but worthy of the shadow outside. He does not deceive the heaven above, and he does not break his promise below. How much less the ancient man would rather make empty words, so as to make use of the things that must not be obtained, and make use of the future! If you don't want to believe it, you can force you to believe it! It is said that there are thousands of tortoises and cranes, which are used to describe people's longevity. Or as a birthday message. Also known as "turtle year crane calculation", "turtle Ling crane calculation" and so on.

The origin of Idioms

"Baopuzi · Duisu" says: "we know the longevity of turtles and cranes, so we should follow their Daoyin to increase their age."

Idiom usage

I wish you a long life. Li Shangyin of Tang Dynasty wrote the article of sacrificing to Secretary Zhang: "the Shinto is very small, and it's hard to study the heavenly principle. The guiyulan is defeated, and the tortoise is old and the crane is old." Wei Xiang of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "drunken Penglai · Tingping Qingshou": "I wish I could grow higher, I wish I could have a better life, I wish I could have a better life." In Song Hou Nan's Song Dynasty, song Hou Nan wrote the poem "singing in the water melody for Zheng Zili's punishment and longevity": "sit and enjoy the turtle's life and the crane's calculation, wear the goldfish's jade belt steadily, and often get close to the ochre yellow robe." The first floor of Yaotai, the birthday of master Cui, written by Jin Wang Dangui, expresses longevity. Proud of the turtle and the crane, the disaster will last forever.

Chinese PinYin : guī hè xiá shòu