indulge in secret relations with women(tōu xiāng qiè yù)

indulge in secret relations with women

Stealing incense and jade, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ō uxi ā ngqi è y ù, which refers to being good at seducing and abducting women or secretly communicating with men and women. It comes from the biography of Jia Chong in the book of Jin.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Jia Chong in the book of Jin, "in the western regions, there were Gongqi incense, but a person who wrote it did not stop for a month. The emperor was very expensive, but he gave it to the great Sima chenqian. Her daughter, the secret thief, left her life behind and filled the place of her family and Shouyan. When she heard her fragrance, she was called "Yu Chong."

Idiom usage

Ming Feng Menglong's Xingshi Hengyan: Wu Ya Nei Linzhou goes to an appointment: "arrange the cloth to hide the sky's lies, and achieve the purpose of stealing incense and jade."

The first chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: moreover, most of the stories about romance are just about elopement, but they never express their true feelings.

The 16th chapter of Chen Duansheng's "rebirth fate" in the Qing Dynasty: "how can you steal incense and jade again? It's hearty and absurd. It's really absurd. I was defeated by you when I was young!"

Idioms and allusions

The story of stealing incense took place in the Jin Dynasty. According to the biography of Jia Chong in the book of Jin, Han Mi's father was Han Shou, an aide under Jia Chong, a powerful minister in the Western Jin Dynasty. Jia Wu, the daughter of Jia Chong in the Jin Dynasty, fell in love with Han Shou and had an affair with him. She stole the strange fragrance collected by her father from Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty and gave it to Han Shou. After Jia Chong found out, he simply married Jia Wu to Han Shou. Therefore, later people called the adultery between men and women (mainly unmarried men and women) as "stealing incense" or "stealing incense and jade". Stealing jade, like stealing incense, has a story. It was probably done by a man surnamed Zheng, but it's a pity that it can't be examined. I only know that later generations often call the private love of unmarried young men and women "Zheng Sheng steals jade, Han Shou steals incense", and the desire of love "stealing incense, stealing Jade Heart".

Chinese PinYin : tōu xiāng qiè yù