The person who tied the bell is the only way to solve the problem(jiě líng hái xū xì líng rén)

The person who tied the bell is the only way to solve the problem

Jieling also needs to be tied to Lingren is a Chinese idiom, and the Pinyin is Ji ě L í NGH á IX ū x ì L í NgR é n. It means that whoever causes trouble needs to be solved.

Source: Song Huihong's collection in the woods Volume 2: Zen master faleng Taiqin had little understanding, but he was not known. Zen master only Falan was very strange. One day, fayan asked the public, "who can solve the golden bell under the tiger?" There is no match. When Taiqin arrived, he raised his eyes and asked about it. Taiqin said, "why don't the masses say," the people who are connected can understand. " So everyone looked at it with new eyes.

pronunciation

Ji ě L í NGH á IX ū x ì L í NgR é n. According to the modern Chinese Dictionary (7th Edition), it should be read as X ì. "Tie" means to tie the bell with a rope and hang it around the tiger's neck. From the semantic time sequence, the meaning of "tie" and "hang" has existed since ancient times, while the meaning of "tie" in J ì appeared later than Song Dynasty.)

interpretation

It refers to who will solve the problem caused by who.

classical Chinese

original text

1. In the Qingliang Temple of Jinling, Taiqin faleng Zen master is proud and free in many days. One day, he asked the crowd, "who solved the tiger golden bell?" No one is right. When the teacher's time is right, he will ask before his eyes are raised. "The teacher said:" the Department of the solution Eye says: "you generation light canal cannot." (2) song Huihong's collection in the woods: Zen master faleng Taiqin has little understanding, but he is not known. Zen master Falan is very strange. One day, fayan asked the public, "who can solve the golden bell under the tiger?" There is no match. When Taiqin arrived, he raised his eyes and asked about it. Taiqin said, "why don't the masses say," the people who are connected can understand. " So everyone looked at it with new eyes.

translation

There is a Taiqin Buddhist monk in Qingliang Temple of Jinling. When he was alive, he was uninhibited and had nothing to do all day long. Everyone despised him, and only fayan valued him. One day, fayan asked the crowd, "who can untie the golden bell tied around the tiger's neck?" If you look at me and I look at you, none of them can answer. At this time, Taiqin faleng Chan Master just arrived, and fayan asked Taiqin faleng Chan Master the question he had just raised. He replied, "the man who tied the bell around the tiger's neck can untie it." Seeing that master faleng's answer was good, fayan taught everyone about it: "you can't underestimate him."

source

This idiom comes from a monk named FA Deng. According to the Buddhist quotations of Zen compiled by Qu Ruji in Ming Dynasty, zhiyuelu, volume 2-13, there was a Taiqin Buddhist monk in Qingliang Temple of Jinling (now Qingliangshan Park) in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was bold and unconstrained and didn't stick to the Buddhist rules. Most monks in the temple looked down on him, but the master fayan thought highly of him. Once, fayan asked the monks in the temple, "who can untie the golden bell tied around the tiger's neck?" After much thought, we couldn't answer it. At this time, FA Deng happened to come, and FA Yan asked him this question again. FA Deng replied without thinking: "only the man who tied the golden bell to the tiger's neck can untie the golden bell." After hearing this, the eye of Dharma thought that the lamp of Dharma could understand the Buddhist doctrine, so he was praised by the public. Later, this sentence was handed down by the idiom that it is necessary to tie the bell to relieve the bell. in the Qing Dynasty, the 90th chapter of a dream of Red Mansions was quoted as "heartache needs heart medicine, and relieving the bell needs the person who tied the bell". It refers to who will solve the problems caused by who. "Jieling still needs to tie the bell" also writes "Jieling tie the bell". There is a reason why the word "Xi" should be read as "X". Because in the allusion "Jieling Tieling", the meaning of "tie" is to tie the bell with a rope and hang it around the tiger's neck. after this incident, faleng won the appreciation of Zen master fayan. Later, he worked under the seat of Zen master fayan as vena (the main person in charge of the Zen hall in the temple), assisting fayan to create the famous fayan sect among the five Buddhist sects. Zen master faleng is not only an eminent monk, but also has profound attainments in literature. His more famous works include three songs of the ancient mirror, among which the third one says: people at that time didn't know the ancient mirror, and the Tao was pure. It's not right to describe it as pure is false. Or round or short or long, if you have fibrotic disease. It is better to break the mirror than to persuade you. It is not difficult to see the Buddhist and literary attainments of FA Deng.

Examples

As the saying goes: ~. It was he who said he would go in, but now he wants them to come out first. (the story of Wu in the spring, Wu in the Ming Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : jiě líng hái xū xì líng rén