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Rhinoceros looks at the moon, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x à Ni ú w à ngyu è, the metaphor is not comprehensive. It comes from Guan Yinzi's five mirror.

The origin of Idioms

Guanyinzi · Wujian: "for example, the rhinoceros looks at the moon, and the shape of the moon goes into the angle. Because of knowing life, the shape of the moon begins to appear, but the real moon is not in the angle at the beginning."

Idiom usage

If you look too far, you will see it. If you cover it for a long time, you will feel its influence in the corner. The fourth volume of Taiping Qinghua by Chen Jiru of Ming Dynasty is on the North Bank of the Yangtze River at the lower part of the bellows gorge of the Three Gorges, on the top of the mountain on the east side of the armor cave. Although the north mountain is not high, it has towering peaks. From a distance, I can see a rhinoceros standing on the top of the mountain looking at the West sky, which looks like a rhinoceros looking at the autumn moon in Kuimen, so it is named "rhinoceros looking at the moon". The mountain color of "rhinoceros" is iron green, and it is like a silhouette hanging in the gorge against the blue sky

Idioms and allusions

"Wu Niu Chuan Yue" is a historical idiom. Wuniu refers to the buffalo in the area of Jianghuai. Wu buffalo thought it was the sun when they saw the moon, and they gasped for fear of the sun. It means to be afraid of something similar. It also refers to a hot summer day. This saying comes from Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu · Yu of the Southern Song Dynasty: "man Fen is afraid of the wind. He sits in Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, and the North window is made of glazed screen. It's really dense and sparse. The emperor laughs at the difficulty of struggling. He replied, "I'm still a cow in Wu, panting at the sight of the moon." This is a witty remark made by Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty to ridicule a minister with rheumatism. Unexpectedly, it has become an idiom. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in his poem Ding Du Hu Ge: "when Wu Niu panted for the moon, what was the hardship of tugboat?" he sighed the hardship of the boatman. First, it is a myth: rhinoceros was originally a God General in the sky. Appointed by the Jade Emperor, rhinoceros conveyed the living standards to the lower world and asked people to "eat one meal and dress three times a day". It means paying attention to etiquette and eating less sweetness. When rhinoceros arrived at Huahua world, he was disturbed and spread the will of the Jade Emperor to "three meals a day and one dress", which completely reversed the meaning of the emperor of heaven. The emperor of heaven was so angry that he sent it to the fairyland. Because it misses the life in the heavenly palace, it looks up at the moon at night, which is the origin of rhinoceros looking at the moon. there is also a legend: there is a girl named Yuzhen at the foot of Yandang Mountain. Her parents died early, and she became a shepherd boy for hualaocai at the age of six. Yuzhen goes to bed late and gets up early every day. She lives with the cow. Hua laocai is a greedy devil. He has evil intentions when he sees that Yu Zhen is so beautiful. One night, Hua laocai asked the housekeeper and the beater to tie up Yu Zhen and was about to rush at the girl. Unexpectedly, an iron whip like ox tail hit Hua laocai in the face, and raised two sharp horns to poke him in the eyes. The old cow took the opportunity to bite off the rope of girl Yuzhen, knelt down and said: "fast, fast ride on my back!" It turned out that the old ox was a fairy. He ran towards the top of Lingxia mountain, and the beaters yelled and gathered around him. Run, run, run to the top of the hill, there is no place to run, the old cow told girl Yuzhen to stand on an ox horn, and girl Yuzhen flew to the sky by the ox horn. The old ox became a one horned stone rhinoceros. Yuzhen girl has been flying to the Moon Palace, from then on rhinoceros head up in the sky, miss the hostess. So there is the story of rhinoceros watching the moon. See also Zhuangzi's carefree tour. "The rhinoceros is as big as a cloud in the sky. "The legend that rhinoceros can communicate with gods implies the wisdom of Taoism, which is beyond the reach of secular theory.

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