The heart of a villain is the belly of a gentleman(yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn，duó jūn zǐ zhī fù)

The heart of a villain is the belly of a gentleman

"The heart of a villain, the belly of a gentleman", Chinese vocabulary, Pinyin is y ǐ Xi ǎ or é nzh ī x ī n, Du ó J ū NZ ǐ zh ī f ù, metaphor to infer the mind of a decent person with despicable ideas.

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The idiom "with the heart of a villain, the belly of a gentleman" evolved from "with the heart of a villain, the heart of a gentleman". Villain: refers to the person with bad moral character; degree: speculation; gentleman: refers to the person with high moral character.

Source: the 28th year of Zhaogong in Zuozhuan: "it's just disgusting to take the belly of a villain as the heart of a gentleman."

The original meaning: "villain", refers to the younger generation, servants. "Degree" means speculation, while "gentleman" refers to the master or elder. This idiom means to use one's own ideas to speculate on the minds of the elders.

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The story recorded in Zuo Zhuan is called "Wei Shu's bribery": in 514 BC, Han xuanzi, the minister in power of Jin State, died and Wei Shu succeeded him. Wei Shu divided the fields of the two old nobles into ten counties, and sent some virtuous and meritorious people to be the officials of these counties respectively. One of them, Wei Wu, who lived in the same clan with him, was sent to gengyang county to be the officials. In this year, someone in gengyang filed a lawsuit. Wei Wu felt that it was difficult for him to judge the case, so he reported it to Wei Shu. At this time, one of the parties to the lawsuit secretly selected a group of female music for Wei Shu, who plans to take it. After Wei Wu knew about this, he said to his ministers Yan Mei and Shu Kuan, "Wei Shu is famous for not taking bribes. If he takes female music, there will be no bigger bribe. You two must admonish him. " Yan didn't agree with Shu Kuan. One day after retiring, they were still waiting in the courtyard. After a while, the food man came, and Wei Shu asked them to eat together. Yan didn't and uncle wide eye staring at the food on the table, sighed together, and then sighed twice between meals. After the meal, Wei Shu asked them, "I heard my uncle and uncle say that we should forget our worries when we eat. Why did you two sigh three times just now?

They replied, "because I didn't eat well last night, I felt hungry and worried that I didn't have enough to eat, so I sighed. Now, the food is very rich, so I feel sorry for myself. How could general Wei's family not have enough food? I can't help but regret myself. "And then he said," now that I'm full of wine and food, I think it's just as easy to satisfy a gentleman's heart as a villain's stomach. I should tell the general how I feel about a villain's stomach. We think that food is enough and wine is enough. We don't want any good things. "Yan Mei and Shu Kuan suggest and warn Wei Shu not to be insatiable and accept other people's female music for the sake of wine and sex. Wei Shu after listening to suddenly wake up, refused to get rid of the other party's bribery.

It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a thief who was very skillful and had never been found stealing. One day, he heard people saying that a man named Wang Ao was upright and upright. Even if someone gave him a big gift, he didn't take it as his own. He often gave money to help the poor. As for ill gotten gains, he refused to accept them at all. The thief thought, "is there anyone who doesn't love money?" So he decided to test Wang Ao.

The next morning, he put a bag of silver in front of Wang Ao's house. After a while, Wang Ao came out. When he saw the bag of silver, he thought that it must have been lost by someone else. Someone must have come to look for it later. So he went out for a walk. When the thief saw that Wang Ao didn't take the silver, he ran to pick it up. Wang Ao looked back and thought that the man must be the owner, so he turned and left again. The thief rushed forward and said to Wang Ao, "I've heard a lot about it. I see it today. It's well deserved." Wang Ao was so confused by him that he asked what was going on, and the thief said it all. After hearing this, Wang Ao said with a smile, "it's true that you are a gentleman with a villain's heart." After hearing this, the thief felt deeply ashamed and finally changed his ways and became an upright man.

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Chinese PinYin : yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn，duó jūn zǐ zhī fù