try what you have devised against others(qǐng jūng rù wèng)

try what you have devised against others

Q ǐ NGJ ū NR ù w è ng is a bi lingual idiom evolved from fable, which comes from Zizhi Tongjian (a saying from chaoyejinzai). It refers to treating people by their own way. In a sentence, it is used as predicate and attribute; it is often used as written language.

The origin of Idioms

① The volume 121 of Taiping Guangji quoted Zhang Zhuo of Tang Dynasty's Zhouxing, the court and yejinzai, as follows: "Tang Qiuguan's minister and Lai Junchen's minister confront each other. Junchen don't Fengjin, stop Xing, Xing don't know. And with food, that Xing said: "prisoners are not willing to accept, if for practice?" Xing said, "it's very easy. Take a large urn and burn it on all sides with charcoal, so that the prisoner can be placed in it. Why don't you vomit? " He called it Xing and said, "if you have an inner shape, please come into this urn." If you are afraid and kowtow, you will be satisfied.

② Sima Guang's Zi Zhi Tong Jian · Tang Ji · the second year of empress Zetian's reign in Song Dynasty said: "maybe you Cheng of Wenchang, Zhou Xing, was conspiring with Qiu Shenji, and the Empress Dowager ordered him to be a handsome minister. Junchen and Xingfang councilor had a meal, saying that Xingfang said, "if there are too many prisoners, why should we do it?" Xing said: "this is very easy to hear! Take a large urn and burn it around with charcoal, so that the prisoner can be put into prison. Why not? " Junchen is Suo's big urn. The fire enclosure is like Xingfa, because it is called Xingfa, saying: "brother Tui, please come into this urn!" Fear and kowtow.

Idiom story

Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty appointed a group of cruel officials in order to suppress those who opposed her. Two of them are the most vicious, one is Zhou Xing, the other is Lai Junchen. They killed many upright civil and military officials and civilians by framing, accusing and inhumane criminal law. Once, an informer letter was sent to Wu Zetian. The content of the letter was to inform Zhou Xing of his contact with others for treason. Wu Zetian was so angry that she ordered Lai Junchen to investigate the matter. Lai Junchen mutters in his heart. He thinks that Zhou Xing is a crafty and treacherous man. He can't tell the truth by a single informant letter. But if he can't find out the result, I can't afford to blame the Empress Dowager. What can we do? After pondering for a long time, I finally came up with a clever plan. He prepared a sumptuous banquet and invited Zhou Xing to his home. Two people you advise me to drink, drink and chat. After three rounds of drinking, Lai Junchen sighed and said, "brother, when I handle cases on weekdays, I often encounter some prisoners who refuse to confess their guilt. What can I do for you, brother?" "It's not easy to do," Zhou said triumphantly Then he took a sip from his glass. Lai Junchen immediately pretended to be very sincere and said, "Oh, please give me some advice." Zhou Xing said with a smile: "you find a big urn, heat it with charcoal fire around, and then let the prisoners into the urn. Think about it, what other prisoners don't confess?" Lai Junchen nodded his head and said yes. Then he ordered people to carry a big urn and light charcoal around as Zhou Xing said. Then he turned back to Zhou Xing and said, "someone in the palace told you that you were plotting a rebellion. They ordered me to investigate. I'm sorry. Now please get yourself into the urn. " On hearing this, Zhou Xing dropped his glass to the ground, then fell to his knees with a plop, kowtowed and said, "I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I confess!"

The meaning of Idioms

Lai Junchen himself was also a cruel official. He knew very well Zhou Xing's style and characteristics of handling cases, and knew that his own method might not be able to solve the task assigned to him by Wu Zetian, so he set up a very clever situation, let Zhou Xing set up a situation by himself, and then put him in this situation. This can be said to be a classic representative of "treating people with their own way".

In this idiom story, Lai Junchen skillfully punished Zhou Xing with the method of "treating him with his own way". From the perspective of psychological characteristics, it not only replaces the good people to realize the psychological desire of "punishing the evil and promoting the good", but also warns the evil doers to be careful of the tragic end of the future.

Use of Idioms

< UL > < li > written usage < / Li > < / UL > as predicate and attribute; used in written language. It is a metaphor for treating people in their own way. Jun: personal pronoun, you; Weng: a kind of earthenware. < UL > < li > application examples < / Li > < / UL > Strange Tales from a lonely studio by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty: "when you drink the water from the West River, it is your intestines; that is, when you burn the bed of the east wall, please enter the urn."

Lu Xun's "grave: on" feiuprai "should be postponed:" benevolent people may want to ask: then, should we not "feiuprai"? I can answer immediately: Yes, of course, but it's too early. This is the "invite the emperor into the Urn" method

Mao Dun's midnight eight: "he has always been used to asking farmers to come to his trap, but this time he played a trick of" inviting the emperor into the urn. "

Chinese PinYin : qǐng jūng rù wèng