play the jackal to the tiger(wèi hǔ zuò chāng)

play the jackal to the tiger

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is w è IH ǔ Zu ò ch ā ng. It's said in ancient times that people who are eaten by tigers become ghosts after they die. They are specially attracted to tigers. Be a ghost for the tiger. It's like being an accomplice to a villain. It comes from volume 430 of Taiping Guangji.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] lead the beast to eat people, help Jie to do evil, take advantage of the situation to do evil, give wings to the tiger, help the tyrant, help the Jie to do evil, add wings to the tiger

The origin of Idioms

"Taiping Guangji" volume 430: "the ghost, who is eaten by the tiger, is the tiger's ear."

Idiom usage

Mu Renzhi, Huang Shiren's henchman, acted for the tiger and was eventually cleared by the people's government.

Idiom story

It is said that when a tiger bites a man to death, the dead dare not adapt to him, so they are often attached to tigers. It's called ghost. He is the leader of the tiger. When he encounters a dark machine, he moves to the road. When a man meets a tiger, his belt will break itself. A tiger eats a man before it eats him.

Story one

It's said that people who are eaten by tigers will become "ch'ng" after death, and he will serve the tigers wholeheartedly. There is a scholar named Ma Zheng who likes to travel in mountains and rivers. On this day, he came to Hengshan, one of the five mountains. Hengshan has a beautiful scenery. Ma Zheng wanders among the pines. It's dusk. It seems that he can't go out this evening. Ma Zheng was worried when he saw a shack on a big tree in front of him. A hunter was beckoning to him. As soon as Ma Zheng lowered his head, he saw that it was a trap set by a hunter not far ahead. Ma Zheng was startled and said, "it's dangerous!" The hunter jumped down from the tree and asked, "who are you? Why are you still wandering in the woods after dark? " Ma Zheng told the hunter about his love of mountains and rivers and his forgetting of time. The hunter said, "there are a lot of tigers here. It's very dangerous. Don't leave alone. Just stay with me for one night." The hunter said as he went to the trap, set up the mechanism for catching tigers, and then took Ma Zheng to the shelter of the big tree. Ma Zheng gave thanks. In the middle of the night, Ma Zheng woke up from his sleep. Suddenly, he heard many people talking under the tree. His voice was getting closer and closer. Ma Zheng was alert. By moonlight, he saw a large group of people coming in front of him, including men and women, old and young. He was afraid that there were dozens of people. When these people came near the big tree where Ma Zheng and the hunter lived, the man in front suddenly found the trap and cried out angrily: "look! Who set up a trap here to murder our king! How hateful! Who dares to be so bold Said, and the other two people together will be set in the trap of the hunter mechanism to dismantle down, and then just hugged each other to greet the past. After the group left, Ma Zheng quickly woke up the hunter and told him what happened just now. The hunter said, "those guys are called ho. They used to be eaten by tigers, but after they became ghosts, they devoted themselves to serving tigers. At night, before the tigers came out, they opened the way for tigers." After hearing this, Ma Zheng understood and said to the hunter, "the king they just said must be a tiger. The tiger may be coming soon. Go and set up the mechanism as soon as possible. " the hunter came down from the tree quickly and put up the trap mechanism again. As soon as he got up the tree, he heard a roar. A fierce tiger came straight from the mountain and jumped on the trap mechanism. With the sound of "whoosh", a crossbow and arrow popped out and hit the tiger's heart. The tiger jumped up and roared wildly, shaking the pine forest. The tiger struggled for a while, fell to the ground and died. The huge cry of the tiger startled the ghosts who had gone a long way. They came back one after another and cried on the dead tiger with blood flowing on its chest. They cried and cried sadly: "who killed our king! Who killed our king Ma Zheng could not help but get angry when he heard it from the tree. He sternly scolded, "you ghosts! I don't know how to do it. You originally died in the mouth of the tiger, but you are still stubborn and crying for the tiger! What an outrage It's hateful for these ghosts to be the accomplices of the bad guys even though they were killed by the bad guys.

Story 2

During the reign of emperor Mu Zong of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that Ma Zheng, a scholar, lived in zhurongfeng, Hengshan. He took a boy servant up the mountain to visit the elder. When he ascended zhurong peak, he saw an old monk with white hair and beard in a Buddhist temple. The old monk was very enthusiastic and must keep Ma Zheng for dinner, but the oil and salt in the kitchen just ran out. Ma Zheng asked the boy servant to go down the mountain to buy oil and salt. The old monk escorted him out of the temple. Ma Zheng stood alone by the temple to enjoy the mountain scenery. At this time, from the foot of the mountain came a hermit named Ma marsh. After exchanging their names, Ma said he saw a tiger eating people in the middle of the mountain Ma Zheng asked the man about his age, appearance and clothes, and exclaimed, "that's my boy servant!" Ma Mu added: "it's strange that the tiger suddenly turned into a white haired old monk after eating people." After a while, the old monk came back. Ma Zhao said to Ma Zheng in a low voice, "it's this monk." When it was late, the old monk asked them to live in the monk's room, but they liked to live in the Zhaitang. They bolted the door tightly and watched the movement outside. In the middle of the night, a tiger bumped into the door several times, and the two men resisted, but the door didn't open. Determined to get rid of the man eating tiger, they finally came up with a good way. the next morning, they said it was a strange sound coming from a well in the backyard, which deceived the old monk to the well. When the old monk came to the wellhead to see, Ma Mu pushed him down the well. As soon as the monk fell into the water, he immediately became a tiger. They brought a big stone and killed it.

Story 3

Once upon a time, in a cave somewhere, there lived a fierce tiger. One day, he felt very sad because he had no food to satisfy his hunger. So it went out of the cave to hunt for food in the nearby mountains. Just at this time, the tiger saw a man hobbling near the mountainside. He rushed to kill him and ate up all his meat. But the tiger is not satisfied. It catches the ghost of that person and has to find another person for it to enjoy. Otherwise, it won't let the ghost of that person get free. The ghost caught by the tiger agreed. So, he worked as a guide for the tiger, searching and searching, and finally met a second person. At this time, the ghost, in order to get rid of himself as soon as possible, helped the tiger to commit the crime. He went to confuse the new man, then untied the man's belt and took off his clothes, so that the tiger could eat more easily. The ghost that helps the tiger eat people is called the ghost. According to this legend, later generations call helping bad people do things that harm nature and reason as "the work of a tiger". Source: Zheng Zi Tong: listening to the rain

Chinese PinYin : wèi hǔ zuò chāng