proclaim one 's might first and then make an actual demonstration of it(xiān shēng hòu shí)

proclaim one 's might first and then make an actual demonstration of it

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi ā NSH ē NGH ò ush í, which means to use momentum to frustrate the enemy's morale first and then fight. It comes from the biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records.

The origin of Idioms

In Sima Qian's biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that "the soldiers have the first voice and then the real one."

Idiom usage

For example, Minister AI Che said that the soldiers had the first voice and then the actual one. Today, because of the trend of pacifying Shu, they took advantage of Wu, which was also the time of sweeping. (Chapter 118 of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : xiān shēng hòu shí