A dead man is a disaster(wáng yuán huò mù)

A dead man is a disaster

The dead ape is a Chinese idiom, pronounced w á ngyu á nhu ò m ù.

Idiom explanation

It refers to the behavior of harming oneself rather than others.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: Volume 432 of Yuanjian Lei Han quoted Tingzhou annals: "in the Dali of Tang Dynasty, there are hundreds of monkey collections in the ancient Chinese fir forest, and the people in the village want to cut down trees to kill them. An old monkey in the middle school suddenly jumped to a nearby arson house. The people in the village were afraid and were eager to fight the fire, so the monkeys took off. "

Discrimination of words

In the Dali Period of the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of monkeys lived in the fir forest in Gutian. The farmers nearby thought that they were harming the crops and wanted to cut down the forest and kill the monkeys. One of the monkeys saw that someone was cutting wood, so he jumped to a nearby house and set fire to it. Seeing that the house was on fire, the farmers rushed to put out the fire, so the monkeys fled one after another

Chinese PinYin : wáng yuán huò mù