He Zi Mei's wife(hè zǐ méi qī)

take a plum tree for one 's wife and cranes for children -- a lofty scholar

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m é IQ ī h è Z ǐ, which means taking Mei as his wife and crane as his son. It is a metaphor of seclusion and quiet and self-adaptive high mood. It is also one of the common themes of traditional Chinese painting. It comes from Shen Kuo's Meng Xi Bi Tan volume 10 personnel II of Song Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Take Mei as his wife and crane as his son. It refers to living in seclusion. In Song Dynasty, Lin Fu lived in seclusion in the isolated mountain of the West Lake, planting plum trees and raising cranes, and never married. He was called "plum wife and crane son".

The origin of Idioms

Shen Kuo of Song Dynasty wrote "Mengxi Bi Tan · personnel 2": "Lin Bu lived in seclusion in the isolated mountain of Hangzhou. He used to live with two cranes, flying into the sky, hovering for a long time, and then entering the cage. He often takes small boats to visit the temples of the West Lake. When a guest comes to the place where he lives, a boy goes out to answer the door and sits with the guest to open the cage for the crane. For a long time, he will return by boat. It's a test of crane flying. "

Idiom usage

"It's like, but the most important thing is that it's not like. They are Mei's wife and crane's son, but you are a group of wives and children. " Tang Haoming's Zeng Guofan part I blood sacrifice Chapter 2 Chapter 4

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: He Zi Mei wife

Related allusions

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Shen Kuo of Song Dynasty wrote in MengXiBiTan volume 10. Personnel 2: "Lin Fu lived in seclusion in the isolated mountain of Hangzhou. He used to live with two cranes, flying into the sky, hovering for a long time, and then entering the cage again. He often takes small boats to visit the temples of the West Lake. When a guest comes to the place where he lives, a boy goes out to answer the door and sits with the guest to open the cage for the crane. For a long time, he will return by boat. It's a test of crane flying. " Lin Fu (Hejing), a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in seclusion in Gushan, Hangzhou. He did not marry without children, but planted plum blossoms and released cranes. He was known as "plum wife and crane son", which has been a good story for thousands of years. In his poem "Xiaomei in the garden of mountains", there is a famous saying: "the light shadow slants horizontally, the water is clear, and the faint fragrance floats in the evening." It is a vivid portrayal of plum blossom, which is well-known and known as the best song of all ages. Allusion - song · Shen Kuo · MengXiBiTan · volume 10 · personnel. Later, the metaphor is also used when living in seclusion or aloofness: Plum crane's fate, wife and children's crane.

allusion

Version 1: in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a hermit named Lin bu. He lost his parents when he was young. His family was poor, and sometimes he couldn't even eat. But he studied hard, worked hard, and finally became a very learned man. However, Lin Bu was indifferent to fame and wealth. He hated the social atmosphere of flattery and pursuit of fame and wealth. So he lived in seclusion in a mountain near the West Lake of Hangzhou and lived a quiet life. Lin Fu is good at poetry. When he writes poetry, he doesn't have to think much about it. He writes it with a stroke of his pen. However, it's strange that he tears it off as soon as he finishes it. Someone asked him, "why don't you copy it down for later generations?" Lin Fu said: "now I live in seclusion in the mountains, and I don't want to be famous for my poems. How can I want to be famous in the future?" Lin Fu's temper is very strange. He doesn't want to marry, let alone have children, but he especially likes plum blossom and crane. He often looked around, as long as he met a good variety, no matter how expensive, he would buy it back. In his spare time, he would enjoy plum blossoms and cranes in the yard by himself. He has a crane called "Minggao". Every time a guest visits, if Lin Bu is not there, the boy opens the cage, "Minggao" will run to inform Lin bu. When Lin Bu sees "Minggao", he will come back to meet the guest. When people around him knew about it, they all said that Lin Fu was a "plum wife and crane son". In the Song Dynasty, there was a poet named Lin Bu in Lin'an (now Hangzhou). His father died when he was young, and his family was very poor, but he studied very hard. When he was an adult, Lin Fu was famous for his knowledge and knowledge. But he didn't want to be an official, so he built a few cottages and lived in seclusion in a small isolated mountain beside the West Lake. Although Xiaogushan is not far from Lin'an, he hasn't been to the city for more than 20 years. Lin has three hobbies in his life: poetry, plum blossom and crane. He thinks that plum blossom is elegant, proud of frost and fighting against snow, which is very similar to his own character. Therefore, he planted plum trees in front of and behind his house. When Chimonanthus praecox opened up, he was very intoxicated with the fragrance of flowers. And he loved the crane as much as he loved his son. In his family, he raised several white cranes. He often let the cranes out and let them hover in the clouds. Lin Bu sat in front of the house and looked up to enjoy them. White crane fly tired, or hungry, will fly back. As time goes on, Bai He and Lin Bu have a deep relationship. Sometimes when Lin Bu is traveling, the boy in the family releases the white crane. When the white crane sees Lin Bu in the flight, it will come to him and hover around for a long time. Lin often goes to the temples in the West Lake by boat, but when he travels, there are often guests at home. Lin Bu said to the boy at home, when a guest came, he let the white crane out, let the white crane come and ask him to go home. One day, Lin Fu was boating in the West Lake when two guests came to his home. The boy opened the door to welcome the guest. The guest sat down for a moment and said, "I'll ask the white crane to call the master back." When he had finished, he called two white cranes and said, "go to the master quickly and say that there will be a distinguished guest." the white crane listens and flies away. Two guests were suspicious. Lin Bu came back with a boat, and two white cranes kept circling by his boat. Two guests met and praised the two cranes as crane immortals. In fact, it's not that the white crane has a spirit, but that the crane has a feeling with Lin Fu and likes to track Lin Fu's footprints. Later, the allusion "plum wife and crane son" was used to express seclusion or nobility.

Related Legends

People in the plum blossom circle all know that there are many plum blossom resorts in Hangzhou, and that there are many plum blossoms in Xiaogushan of Hangzhou West Lake, where there are the crane releasing Pavilion and the tomb of Mr. Lin Hejing, the famous poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, Lin bu (i.e. Lin Hejing) sleeps there. At that time, he planted plum here and wrote many beautiful poems about plum. He is also famous for the legend of "plum wife and crane son". According to historical records, Lin Fu (967-1024 A.D.), a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in a Confucian family in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In his early years, he traveled in Jianghuai and other places. Later, he lived in seclusion under the isolated mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou. Because he stayed at home all the year round, he enjoyed planting plum blossoms and raising cranes. It is also said that he never married in his life, so the story of "plum wife and crane son" spread. Until today, many people know the story of "plum wife and crane son". The entry about "plum wife and crane son" in Cihai says: "in the Song Dynasty, Lin Fu lived in seclusion in the isolated mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou, without a wife and children. He was called" plum wife and crane son "by planting plum and raising crane for self entertainment." In fact, Lin Fu is famous for his outstanding poems on plum blossoms. He lived in seclusion in an isolated mountain, worked hard in farming and planting a large number of plum trees, and wrote a lot of beautiful verses about plum trees. Among them, Xiaomei in the mountain garden was very popular and caused a sensation in the poetry circle: the flowers were swaying down, the flowers were beautiful, and the scenery was all over the garden; the shadows were slanting, the water was clear, and the fragrance was floating in the evening. the frost bird wants to steal its eyes first, and the pink butterfly knows how to meet and break its soul; fortunately, there is a little chant for us to meet, so we don't need to share gold with sandalwood. this poem not only describes the clear shadow and verve of plum blossom in the quiet environment, but also integrates plum blossom quality and moral character. The two sentences of "Shuying" and "Yinxiang" have become the eternal masterpiece of plum blossom chanting, which has aroused the resonance of many scholars. Since then, the wind of chanting Mei has become more and more popular, such as Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Lu You, Xin Qiji, Yang Wanli, Mei Yaochen and so on. Su Shi even took Lin Bu's poem as an example of chanting things and expressing feelings, so that his son Su Guo could learn from it. With the popularity of plum chanting in Song Dynasty, the name of Lin Bu and the plum blossom in Gushan also became popular in the literary world, such as "a scholar in the moon" (Tao Zongyi's poem), "a spring in the natural and unrestrained Gushan" (Zhao Mengfu's poem), "a lonely man chanting the snow in the Gushan" (Wen Zhengming's poem), etc, This shows that since the Northern Song Dynasty, because of the influence of Lin Fu's good sentences, the plum chanting style of the literati really became hot. In fact, the plum blossom of Gushan was found in Bai Juyi's poems in Tang Dynasty. After Bai Juyi left Hangzhou that year, he wrote a poem "recalling Hangzhou plum blossoms and sending Xiao xielau for reminiscence": "three years in Yuhang, he had drunk with plum blossoms for several times;" the edge of Wuxiang Temple is as heavy as snow, and the solitary mountain garden is as beautiful as makeup. This proves that the Gushan of West Lake in Hangzhou had plum blossom in Tang Dynasty, but why did Lin Fu's poems cover up the white poems later? This is not only because there are many good lines in the plum poems, but also because of the spread of the story of "plum wife and crane son". In addition, it is also related to Lin's character, social environment and political background at that time. More than 40 years ago, in Guangming Daily on March 21, 1961, Xia Chengtao, a famous Chinese poet and professor of Zhejiang University, published an article entitled "Dongfeng world talks about plum blossoms". In the article, he mentioned some of Lin's situation, which roughly means that: before his death, Lin lived in seclusion in Gushan. At that time, he was the governor of Hangzhou, and every year he sent some millet and silk to Lin. After Lin Fu died in 1028, the emperor song Renzong gave him a posthumous title, which was called "Mr. Hejing". As a result, Lin Fu became even more famous The reason for this is that the former Emperor song Zhenzong, in order to recover his prestige lost in the alien wars, made a trick of "Tianshu Fengchan" by the Minister Wang qinruo faking silk books and putting them on the palace gate and Mount Tai. Later, the old emperor song Zhenzong really led the civil and military officials, pretending to kneel down to receive the "book of heaven". In the turbid and corrupt government, some ministers and shameless scholars took advantage of the opportunity of "book of heaven granted Zen"

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