material aspect of things(pìn mǔ lí huáng)

material aspect of things

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin P ì nm ǔ L í Hu á ng is not a surface phenomenon reflecting the essence of things.

explain

Female, female animal, as opposed to the "tree". Li, black; yellow, yellow. The female, the female, the female, the female and the Yellow all refer to the external characteristics of animals. The original meaning is that the quality of the horse does not depend on gender, black or yellow. That is to say, the essence of things can not be determined only by appearance or phenomenon. Post metaphor refers to the surface phenomenon of things.

usage

It refers to the surface phenomenon of things.

source

The book is named Liezi Shuo Fu. In ancient times, bole, who was good at matching horses, recommended jiufanggao as a good horse for Qin Mu Gong. Three months later, we got it in the sand dunes. When Mu Gong asked why the horse was, he replied that it was "female but yellow"; when Mu Gong sent someone to see it, it was "Mu but Li". So he blamed bole. Bole sighed with a sigh: "if you look at what Gao has seen, it's the destiny. To get the essence and forget the coarseness, to be inside and forget the outside; to see what you see and not what you don't see; to see what you see and not what you don't see. If Gao is a prime minister of horses, there are those who are more expensive than horses. " That is to say, what jiufanggao paid attention to was the character of the horse. He didn't pay attention to the appearance. This is the proof that he was good at matching horses. When the horse comes, it is really a rare horse in the world. According to jiufanggao, Huainanzi · daoyingxun, LvShiChunQiu · Guanbiao and so on, he wrote jiufangli and jiufangyu. Song Chen Liang's "sacrifice to Pan Shu Du Wen": Shu Du is only a friend of his wife and son, who is concerned with his weal and woe, and is sympathetic to him. Zashuo by Li Zhi of Ming Dynasty: the foot of chasing wind and electricity is never between.

Chinese PinYin : pìn mǔ lí huáng