a swarm of people running after unwholesome things(rú yǐ fù shān)

a swarm of people running after unwholesome things

Ru ant Fu Tan is an idiom, the pronunciation is R ú y ǐ f ù sh ā n, Ru ant Fu Tan means like an ant to attach to the fishy mutton to curry favor with the rich and powerful. It's also like an ant attached to a dog.

explain

"Mutton doesn't admire ants. Ants admire mutton. Mutton, mutton. Shun has the line of Shan, and the people are happy with it. " The smell of mutton. Like ants clinging to mutton. This is a metaphor for many like-minded people who pursue bad things. It also means that many people depend on the rich and powerful.

allusion

original text

In the eighth volume of miscellaneous chapters of Zhuangzi, Xu Wugui was written by Lou, Shun also. Mutton doesn't admire ants. Ants admire mutton, and mutton stinks. There are ten thousand families in Tang Dynasty. When Yao heard of the sages of Shun and the land of his children, he said, "I hope I can get the glory of his coming." Shun was raised in the land of Tongtu. He was old and weak, but he had no choice but to return. Cheng xuanyingshu, Tang Dynasty: "the mutton of husband is fishy, and he doesn't want to admire ants. Ants smell it and come back.". Shun had benevolence, he did not admire the people, but the people were happy with him. So mutton is better than Shun, ants are better than the common people. 」

translation

The so-called hunchback, hard-working people, is like Shun. Mutton does not love ants, ants love mutton, because mutton has a fishy smell. Shun's behavior is fishy, and the people like him very much, so he moved many times from Chengdu. When he went to Deng's abandoned site, he gathered the first 100000 families. Yao learned about Shun's talent and recommended him from the barren land, saying that he hoped that he could give his kindness to the people. Shun was recommended from the barren land. He was getting old, his quick hearing and eyesight had declined, and he could not come back to rest. This is the so-called hunchback and hard-working man.

Examples

Liang Qichao of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the new law on the destruction of the state: "if a husband makes a foreign country borrow money from me, instead of having a great desire to follow, then why fight for this right? It's like an ant clinging to a dog snatching the bone." According to the epitaph of Ye Sicheng by Liu Kezhuang in Song Dynasty, "scholars tend to their door like ants. "In the thirty four rhymes of sentimental events written by Han Luo of Tang Dynasty," all Mandarin herons return to the banquet, and gaokui also admires the mutton. " "In the past, the recommendation system was mainly composed of Mu Shan, Jie foot fly camp, and real talent wrapped up in feet." According to Xia Xie of Qing Dynasty, in the chronicle of the East and the west, the essence and the end of the leakage: "the people who smoke and sell can't help but open their eyes to admire the market of mutton."

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