A dead man and a dead tree(wáng yuán zāi mù)

A dead man and a dead tree

The Chinese idiom, w á ngyu á NZ ā im ù, refers to the act of harming oneself rather than others. From Yuan Jian Lei Han.

The origin of Idioms

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 they took off the monkey. "

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing.

Examples

Wang Kaiyun's preface in the Qing Dynasty said, "the deer will be covered, the banana will be left, the ape will be destroyed, the enemy will not be the enemy, and the enemy will be toppled."

Chinese PinYin : wáng yuán zāi mù