a butt for future ridicule
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y í Xi à oh à ur é n, which means to make future generations laugh because of its absurdity. It comes from Wu Mingshi's new Pinghua on the history of the Five Dynasties and the history of the Zhou Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the volume of Wu Mingshi's new Pinghua of the Five Dynasties, history of the Zhou Dynasty, Liu Jun tolerated humiliation and followed Shi Jingtang's former wisdom. Why don't you laugh at your descendants? "
Idiom explanation
Yi: stay; posterity: posterity. Because of its absurdity, it makes posterity laugh and leaves a story for posterity.
Chinese PinYin : yí xiào hòu rén
a butt for future ridicule
cherish the old and care for the poor. jìng lǎo lián pín
when a thing reaches its extreme , it reverses its course. wù jí zé fǎn