Buy a plow and sell a sword(mǎi lí mài jiàn)

Buy a plow and sell a sword

Buy a plow and sell a sword, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m à IL í m à Iji à n, which originally means to lay down arms and engage in farming. After the metaphor to change the business, farmers or bad people to change the bad and follow the good. It comes from the Song Dynasty Chen Liang's "congratulating the bridegroom, Huaixin and Youan, using the rhyme before.".

The origin of Idioms

Chen Liang of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "congratulations to the bridegroom, Huaixin, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an, You'an

Idiom usage

Song Sushi's "Zhang Zuoshi sent inkstone to fight against the sword is to return to it with the sword of his poem's pawn": "chop jiaoci Tiger Old powerless, lead niupeidu officials to know." Chen Shu Shizu Ji: "since the Qing Kou Rong, many people are wandering, the people lose their share of the land, the scholars have Peidu ridicule." Song zenggong's YUEWU hall poem: "Liu Jian was surprised to throw the pot music, and sang an Pei Du line below.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: selling swords to buy cattle

Chinese PinYin : mǎi lí mài jiàn