very old age(guī líng hè suàn)

very old age

Guiling Hesuan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ī L í NGH è Su à n, which means a metaphor for people's long life. Or as a birthday message. It is the same as "turtle year and crane life". It comes from the Song Dynasty's Hou Nan's poem "water melody song head: mention of punishment and longevity for Zheng Zili".

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Hou Nan's poem "singing head in the water melody, offering punishment and longevity for Zheng Zili", he said: "sit and enjoy the turtle's life and the crane's calculation, steadily wear the goldfish and jade belt, and often get close to the ochre yellow robe."

Idioms and allusions

origin

Selected works of Zhaoming (Volume 21) poem B · immortals · immortals ～ 020 ～ seven poems about Immortals (Volume 3): "Emerald plays with sweet potato, and looks 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! 」

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: the year of the turtle and the crane, the longevity of the turtle and the crane, the age of the crane

Idiom usage

In Song Hou Gan's Song Dynasty, the poem "singing for Zheng Zili in shuidiao" reads: "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. Li Shangyin of Tang Dynasty wrote in the article of sacrificing to Secretary Zhang: "the Shinto is very small, and it's hard to investigate the heavenly principle. The Guiyu orchid 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."

Chinese PinYin : guī líng hè suàn