at sixes and sevens(luàn qī bā zāo)

at sixes and sevens

Disorderly, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Lu à NQ à B à Z à o, to describe disorderly and disorderly appearance, from the "evil sea flower".

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] disorderly and messy [antonym] orderly, orderly and orderly

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Example: Lu Xun's "qijieting essays II: the beginning of a muddled life": it's very complicated. After being trampled on by all kinds of horse teams in ancient and modern times, it's so complicated She plays the piano well, but her voice is very clear. ——Lao She's two horses

The origin of Idioms

The fifth chapter of Zeng Pu's the flowers of evil sea in Qing Dynasty: "look at the books, calligraphy, paintings and utensils in the room. They are elegant and tidy. They are not like the mess of Gongfang before. This is xialang's achievement."

Idioms and allusions

The rebellion of seven states and the rebellion of eight kings refers to the "rebellion of seven states" in the Western Han Dynasty. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang eradicated the princes with different surnames, he also enfeoffed a group of Liu's children as kings, hoping to rely on the strength of Liu's clan as the wings of imperial power. However, with the expansion of the power of the princes, their disadvantages and hidden dangers gradually emerged. After the evolution of several dynasties, by the time of emperor Jing, the powers of the kings had become more and more powerful, among which Qi, Chu and Wu almost occupied half of the world, seriously threatening the central government of the Han Dynasty. Chao Cuo, the Minister of state, suggested that emperor Jing should "cut off the vassals" in order to reduce the vassals of the kings and consolidate the central government. Emperor Jing adopted Chao CuO's suggestion and ordered to carry out the policy of "cutting the vassal" among the kings with the same surname, which aroused strong opposition from the kings. In the first month of the third year of emperor Jingdi of Han Dynasty (154 BC), Wu, Chu and other seven States launched armed rebellion in the name of "zhuchao Cuo, Qing junbian", which is known as "the rebellion of seven states". Emperor Jing was a little flustered. He listened to the greedy words and killed Chao Cuo. However, the troops of the kings did not retreat and continued to advance. After regretting, Emperor Jing decided to fight the rebellion by force, so he sent Taiwei Zhou Yafu to lead the army to punish him. Zhou Yafu defeated the attack of the Wu Chu allied forces many times with the tactics of sticking to the wall. The soldiers of the Wu Chu allied forces starved to death, surrendered and lost so much that they had to retreat. In March, thousands of remnant members of King Liu Bi of Wu retreated to Dantu and rushed to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, where they were killed by Dongyue people. Other kings were defeated and killed. At this time, after three months, the rebellion of the seven countries was put down. In the period of Emperor Wen, Chao Cuo, who had become a prominent figure, was acutely aware that the expansion of the power of the princes and kings would inevitably pose a serious threat to the central government of the Han Dynasty, so he put forward the proposal of "cutting the vassal" to Liu Qi, the king of Jing, that is, "cutting its branches" and returning to the direct jurisdiction of the central government. Emperor Jing adopted this suggestion and began to gradually reduce the feudal land of the kingdom. This is the history of "Zhou Yafu Ping seven chaos.". The word "luanqi" was born here. "Eight evils" refers to the famous "eight kings rebellion" in the history of Jin Dynasty. In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, when Sima Yan established the Jin Dynasty, he worried that other doctors would take over his power, and made the royal family's children princes and princes respectively, and stipulated that they would enjoy many privileges. After Sima Yan's death, Sima, the successor to the throne, was mediocre, stupid and mentally retarded, and the actual power of the court fell into the hands of his grandfather Yang Jun. This aroused the dissatisfaction of Sima Zhong's wife, empress Jia, who secretly killed Yang Jun and his accomplices. After that, empress Jia invited Sima Liang, king of Runan, to assist him. After Sima Liang came to power, he was also dictatorial. Therefore, empress Jia secretly ordered Sima Wei to kill Sima Liang, and Sima Wei came out to assist the government. However, Sima Wei did not listen to Jia Houyan. Jia Houyan then designed to kill Sima Wei. Later, in order to dominate the government and the public, empress Jia abolished the crown prince Sima Li as a commoner and poisoned him to death. Zhao WangLun took the opportunity to launch a mutiny, playing the banner of revenge for the prince Sima Li. In the first year of Yongkang (A.D. 300), Zhao WangLun sent troops to attack Luoyang and killed empress Jia and his pro party. A 16 year old scuffle of imperial power began. Because there were eight Wang with the same surname who took part in the chaos: Wang Liang of Runan, Wang Wei of Chu, Zhao WangLun, Wang Bi of Qi, Wang Bi of Hejian, Wang Ying of Chengdu, Wang Yi of Changsha and Wang Yue of Donghai. Therefore, the history of this melee is known as "the rebellion of eight kings". The bloody struggle for power and profit in the Royal Palace lasted much longer than the "seven countries' rebellion", and the people suffered more serious disasters. It is for this reason that the "eight kings' rebellion" is vividly called "eight evils". Since then, the two historical events of "the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" and "the rebellion of the eight kings" have been linked together to form an idiom. According to the Internal Classic of the Yellow Emperor, women have a cycle of seven years, and husbands have a cycle of eight years. The unity of heaven and man is commonly known as 7788. If you don't live according to the four seasons of heaven, earth, yin and Yang, rising and falling alternately, your life will be in disorder, which is called "chaos". In the eight trigrams of the nine palaces, the other trigrams are evil with good luck or evil with good luck, but the wandering soul trigram of the seventh palace and the returning soul trigram of the eighth Palace are pure When the ancients met the seventh hexagram when they were shaking the tortoise shell, they were in a mess. When they got to the eighth hexagram, they were in a mess.

Chinese PinYin : luàn qī bā zāo