avoid dangers(líng yáng guà jiǎo)

avoid dangers

Antelope hanging horn, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l í ngy á nggu à Ji à o, which refers to the antelope hanging horn in a tree when sleeping at night, with no feet on the ground, in order to avoid disaster. In the old days, it was often used to describe the artistic conception of poetry. It comes from Lu Dian's Yiya Shishou.

Interpretation of Idioms

The antelope sleeps in the night, hangs its horn on the tree, and its feet do not touch the ground to avoid disaster. In the old days, there were many metaphorical poems with detached artistic conception. extended, it refers to the detached artistic conception without any trace. Later generations understand it as a Zen term, a metaphor for "witty words" that do not involve reasoning and do not fall into words. "Antelope hanging horns, no trace", it is said that when the antelope sleeps at night, in order to prevent invasion, it hangs its horns on the tree, and its feet can't touch the ground, so it's hard for those with evil intentions to find its trace. Later, it was used in literary creation, which means that the creation depends on a flash of inspiration and cannot be explained rationally.

Idiom story

It is said that when the antelope goes to bed at night, it is different from the ordinary animals. It will look for a tree, and when it sees the right position, it will try its best to jump, hanging its horn on the branch of the tree, so as to ensure that the whole body is suspended, and other animals can't reach it.

Idioms and allusions

Yan Yu of Song Dynasty said in Canglang Shihua Shibian: "a poet is also a poet who chants emotion. All the people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are interested in it. They have nothing to ask for. So the beauty of it is thorough and exquisite, and you can't park it together. " He also used "the sound in the air, the color in the phase, the moon in the water, and the image in the mirror" to describe this kind of ethereal and mysterious poetic realm of "endless words and endless meanings".

Idiom usage

It is generally used as an object.

Chinese PinYin : líng yáng guà jiǎo