Poor apes rush to the forest(qióng yuán bēn lín)

Poor apes rush to the forest

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Qi ó ngyu á Nb è NL í n, which means that people are eager to find a place to live in poverty. It comes from the new sayings of the world · speech written by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty.

explain

Poor Ape: ape chased by hunter. This is a metaphor for being eager to find a place to live in poverty.

source

The sigh of the north gate has been heard for a long time. A poor ape in the woods has no time to choose trees. Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Yu Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty

Idiom story

It is said that in ancient times, Li Hongdu often lamented that he had not met with talent. When Yin Yangzhou knew that his family was poor, he asked if he could bend his ambition. Li Hongdu replied with emotion: "the sigh of north gate has been heard for a long time. When the poor ape rushes to the forest, he has no time to choose trees! " Yin Yangzhou decided to employ him as the magistrate of Shan county. Li Hongdu was very grateful.

Examples

For a person who encounters rainstorm in the mountain forest and suddenly sees a cave, that kind of joy is no different from running to the forest in poverty.

usage

He is in poverty and eager to find a place to live.

Idiom information

Degree of common use: common use emotional color: commendatory words idiom structure: subject predicate type generation time: ancient times

Chinese PinYin : qióng yuán bēn lín