have insatiable desires(huò lǒng wāng shǔ)

have insatiable desires

Longwangshu is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Hu ò L ǒ NGW ā ngsh ǔ, which means to be insatiable and greedy. It comes from the biography of Cen Peng in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Cen Peng in the book of the later Han Dynasty, in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, Kaiqi and Gongsun Shu were separately under the rule of long and Shu. Emperor Guangwu's Liu Xiushi and Cen Peng led their troops to attack Xicheng and Shangying, which were occupied by Kaiqi. In a letter to CEN Peng, they said: "if the two cities are lower, they can lead the troops to attack the Shulu in the south. If people are not satisfied with their sufferings, they will be able to pacify Gansu and return to Sichuan. "

Idiom usage

It refers to people's lack of greed. For example, those who are willing to enter the chi and gain the longwangshu are eager to push ahead, while those who are threatened by the government are willing to take the inch today and will be given the Chi tomorrow, and those who are greedy of the people. Liang Qichao's on the general trend of national competition

Idiom story

Idiom story: in the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Liu Xiu became the emperor, Gongsun Shu, the king of Bashu in the west, and kaixiao in Longxi were a great threat to the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the eighth year of Emperor Guangwu's founding, Liu Xiu personally led the army to fight against kaixiao, who was defeated and fled to the western regions. Liu Xiu ordered the general to carry out his plan of "gaining long and expecting Shu", and then attacked Bashu, destroying the king of Shu and returning Bashu to Han Dynasty.

Chinese PinYin : huò lǒng wāng shǔ