A bird knows the ambition of a swan(yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì)

A bird knows the ambition of a swan

"The swallow bird knows the ambition of the swan" comes from "historical records · Chen she's family" and "Zhuangzi · neipian · xiaoyaoyou", which means how the swallow bird can know the lofty ambition of the swan. It means that ordinary people don't know the ambition of the hero.

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When Chen she was young, he tasted farming with a servant, stopped farming on the ridge, and regretted for a long time, saying: "don't forget the wealth." The servant laughed and said, "if you work for a servant, why are you rich?" Chen she sighed and said, "well, the sparrow knows the ambition of the swan!" When Chen she was young, he was employed to farm with others. (one day) Chen she stopped farming and went to the highland beside the field (to have a rest). He was disappointed and sighed for a long time. He said, "if you are rich, don't forget your old friends." The employees answered with a smile, "you are a hired man. How can you be rich? "Chen she sighed and said," Alas, how can the sparrow know the ambition of the swan! " [note] Shao: when I was young. Taste: once. Domestic farming: employed to cultivate land for others. Servant, hired labor. Zhi: verb, go, go. and: preposition, he, Tong. Stop: stop. Ridge: ridge. Disappointment: disappointment. Hate: sigh. Regret: regret for disappointment. Gou: if, if. none: No. and: conjunction, the former part modifies the latter part, indicating state. should: answer. Ruo: pronoun, you, refers to Chen Sheng. for: as. Taixi: long sigh (Jixi): equivalent to the exclamation "Ai". Ann: why. Sparrow: sparrow. It's a metaphor for people with short knowledge. Swan: Swan is a metaphor for a man with lofty ambition. In Zhuangzi neipian xiaoyaoyou, there is a fish in the north, which is called Kun Tiao and Xuejiu said with a smile, "I will rise and fly, and snatch Yufang to stop. Time will not arrive, but control the ground. Xi will take it 90000 Li to the south?" Those who are suitable for the vast and the vast will have three meals, and their belly will be as good as expected; those who are suitable for a hundred Li will have to pound grain; those who are suitable for a thousand li will gather grain in March. What do you know about the second insect The cicada and the sparrow sneered at it and said, "I take off from the ground quickly. When I touch a branch, I stop. Sometimes I can't fly to the tree, so I fall on the ground. Why do I have to fly to the South China Sea so hard?" To the outskirts of the forest, with a day of food can go back and forth, stomach or full. When you go a hundred miles away, you have to spend the whole night pounding rice to prepare dry food. If you go thousands of miles away, you have to prepare food three months ago. What do these two little things know?

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Chen Sheng Chen Sheng, a native of Yangcheng (now Shangshui County, Henan Province), was the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty. This story is about when Chen Sheng was young, he was employed to cultivate land with others. One day, Chen Sheng stopped farming and went to the highland beside the field to have a rest. He was frustrated and sighed for a long time. He said, "if one of us is rich one day, don't forget our old friends." The employees answered with a smile, "you are a hired man. How can you be rich?" Chen Sheng sighed and said, "Alas, how can the sparrow know the ambition of the swan?" Chen Sheng later became king because of his opposition to the uprising led by the tyrant Qin Dynasty, but he forgot his promise of "never forgetting each other" in the past. When his old friends found him, he was killed by Chen Sheng because of improper words. From this point of view, Chen Sheng is not a righteous man. It is said that in ancient times, there was a very big fish in the far north sea. Its name was Kun. Later, Kun became a big bird, named Peng. The back of Mirs is as high as Mount Tai. When they fly, their wings block out the sun. Once, the Mirs flew south. It hits the water on the South China Sea, which is 3000 Li at a time. It flew high into the sky, rolled up a storm, and flew 90000 miles at a time. It will take half a year for it to fly to the South China Sea. When it is flying high in the sky, its back is against the blue sky, but the clouds are below it. The little sparrow living in the depression, seeing the Mirs flying so high and so far, did not understand it, so he said, "we fly up, but we fall down a few feet high, even if we fly over the top of the tree. Why does the Mirs fly to a distance of 90000 Li? "

Use examples

Lu's spring and Autumn Annals, Shi Rong: "the spirit of a man's galloping, the ambition of a swan, and the sincerity of a man who speaks to his heart." In Lu Zhao's Ode to the dance of wagons in the Tang Dynasty, "Kuang means to squat in a graceful way, and then to know the ambition of a swan, not to follow the common customs." In Yuan Dynasty, Zheng Guangzu's the first book of Wang can ascends the tower: "a great man is determined by the ambition of a great swan, according to the talent of a great man." It is also a record of the great swan. In the biography of Zhang Ding and Zhang Yu in the northern history, it is said that "when he is depressed, he will know that there is a great ambition." Lu You of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem in an Zhong Za Shu: "stop farming, the ambition of the swan on the ridge, the sound of the Phoenix in the roaring mountain." Yu Dafu's poem "I don't know when to rush back to China before autumn when diplomats try to be reprimanded" says: "the sparrow does not know the ambition of the swan, and the Phoenix cherishes the feather wound!"

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