The fox scurrying and the mouse scurrying(hú bēn shǔ cuàn)

The fox scurrying and the mouse scurrying

Fox scurrying and mouse scurrying is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is h ú B à NSH à Cu à n, which refers to a very embarrassed escape. It comes from the biography of Suolu.

source

The Song Dynasty book "suoluzhuan" said: "some foxes may flee to the north, but often they will be accepted. They will be treated as if they were old, and they will fight for food, even if they are bandits." Chapter 21 of biography of Heroes: "all the officers and soldiers fled away."

usage

To run away in confusion.

Idiom story

During the northern and Southern Dynasties, Yuzhou was the border between the later Wei Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. The people on the border suffered from the war, and the thieves on both sides rushed to the other side to burn, kill and plunder. Kuchen Shulan, the northern well Marquis of the Wei Dynasty, blames the Song Dynasty for its failure to crack down on the thieves. Liu Shuo, the Nanping king of the Song Dynasty, thinks that it was the Song Dynasty that attacked the thieves, and they fled to the Wei side to seek protection.

Chinese PinYin : hú bēn shǔ cuàn