Horse head wants to go East(mǎ shǒu yù dōng)

Horse head wants to go East

Ma Shou Yu Dong is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is m ǎ sh ǒ uy ù D ō ng, which means returning to the East. It comes from the spring and Autumn Annals, the fourteenth year of Xianggong.

The origin of Idioms

In the fourteenth year of Xianggong in Zuozhuan: "Luan he said: 'the destiny of the state of Jin does not exist. I want to go east. "It's home." Yang Bojun noted: "Qin soldiers are in the west, and they will return to the East."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing.

Examples

Today, the horse head wants to go east, and there is no way to meet him. A pair of hand-made thick shoes and a pair of silk stockings are used to show the subtle meaning. Two episodes of West Lake

The biography of Du Bi in the book of the Northern Qi Dynasty: "after that, I don't agree with Xing Shuyun:" my husband's advice is clear and reasonable, so I'd like to give some evidence, but I'm only a gentleman who disobeys Kong's interpretation. If you don't learn from the saints, everything has its own mind, and the horse's head wants to go east, who can control it? "

Tang Dugu and his poem "Dai Shu sent to Pei Liuji and Liu Erying" said: "in the past, the horse was in the East, and you were in the north of the sea."

Zhu YIZUN of the Qing Dynasty wrote a poem: "if you want to follow Meng Dongye style, you can send it back to Gaomi."

Chinese PinYin : mǎ shǒu yù dōng