accept sth. uncritically(shēng tūn huó bō)

accept sth. uncritically

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ē NGT ū nhu ó B ō, which originally means to swallow and peel (shellfish) alive. It describes that human beings lived the life of wild animals at that time. It refers to the rigid acceptance and mechanical copying of other people's experience, theory and method. It also means to pull and pull. It comes from Tang Dynasty's Liu Su's new language of the Tang Dynasty, Pu Huo.

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. When they came back from Europe, America and Japan, they only talked about foreign countries. Mao Zedong's "transforming our learning"

The origin of Idioms

Tang Liu Su's new words of the Tang Dynasty: there is Zaoqiang Wei Zhang Huaiqing who likes to steal articles from celebrities As the saying goes, "if Wang Changling is stripped alive, Guo Zhengyi will be swallowed alive."

Idioms and allusions

"Eat alive" comes from Ji Yougong's chronicle of Tang poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huaiqing, a county magistrate of Zaoqiang County (Zaoqiang, county name, now Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province), liked to copy the articles of famous scholars. Li Yifu, the Minister of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a five character poem, the original text is: "carve out the moon into a song fan, cut off the clouds for dancing clothes, feel sorry for the snow shadow, so as to return to Luochuan." Zhang Huaiqing changed the poem into a seven character poem by adding two words to the front of each sentence: "when you are in love, you can carve out the moon to become a singing fan; when you are out of nature, you can carve out clouds to make dancing clothes; when you look at the mirror, you can feel pity for yourself and return to the snow, and when you come, you can take Luochuan back." When people read this poem by Zhang Huaiqing, they all burst into laughter. Some people ridiculed him for this method: "strip Zhang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi alive!" Both Zhang and Guo were famous for their words. Most of Tang Gaozong's imperial edicts and imperial edicts were written by them. Note: "carve out the moon to become a fan, cut the clouds to make dance clothes, and feel sorry for the snow shadow, so as to return to Luochuan." The moon is regarded as a hollowed out fan (the hills on the moon form a black area), and the floating clouds in the sky are regarded as the dancing clothes worn by singing girls. It's like there are beautiful ladies singing and dancing in the sky, and I just drag my lonely figure on the snow to Luoyang to go home. This story is also recorded in the new language of Tang Dynasty · harmonic filter by Liu Su of Tang Dynasty. Later, according to this story, people extended the idiom "eat alive", which refers to copying mechanically, or plagiarizing other people's ready-made words, theories, experiences, etc. It is often used as a metaphor to say that you can't digest and absorb what you have learned from others, but just accept it stiffly or use it mechanically. in the period of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, there was a local county magistrate Zhang Huaiqing who was mediocre and elegant and liked to write poetry. But his writing style was not very good. In order to be famous, he often copied other people's works and pretended to be his own. at that time, there was a poet named Li Yifu who wrote such a five character poem: carve out the moon as a singing fan and cut clouds for dancing clothes. Self pity back to the snow, good to take Luochuan back. When Zhang Huaiqing saw it, he immediately took it, added two words to the front of each sentence, and changed it into a seven character poem that didn't make sense at all: the moon is carved for singing fans, and the clouds are cut for dancing clothes. Learn from self pity back to the snow, come to take Luochuan back. When people read this poem by Zhang Huaiqing, they all burst into laughter. At that time, there were two great poets in the court, one was Zhang Changling, the other was Guo Zhengyi. Their works are often plagiarized by Zhang Huaiqing. Because Zhang Huaiqing had the bad habit of pretending to know nothing, plagiarizing and altering other people's works to impersonate his own creation, and often plagiarized the works of Zhang Changling and Guo Zhengyi, people at that time made up two Doggerels for him: strip Zhang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi alive. the idiom "eat alive" is evolved from "eat alive" of Zhang Changling and "eat alive" of Guo Zhengyi.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] eat the ancient, swallow the jujube, copy mechanically, pull mechanically

Chinese PinYin : shēng tūn huó bō