Money makes the devil go(yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò)

Money makes the devil go

Money makes the devil push the mill. Money is everything.

It's from Yu Shi Ming Yan written by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty: "it's just that officials are not tight for three days, and that money can make ghosts push the mill."

In Hakka area, it is intuitively understood as "as long as you are willing to spend money, someone will do everything for you.".

brief introduction

The idiom "every one has his price" is used to describe money, or "every one has his price"

English translation

Moneytalks

source

Lu Bao, Jin Dynasty, wrote "money can make ghosts, not to mention people."

Examples

Example 1: "Yu Shi Ming Yan": "it is the official who has no three days to be tight, and the way is ~ ~". example 2: "money can make the ghost push the mill" is from youminglu · new ghost written by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty. He made up a story: there was a ghost who was new to hell and was very thin; in hell, he met a fat ghost and was very envious, so he asked him how to become rich. The ghost told him that as long as he made trouble in the world and made some noise, people would offer him something to eat when they were afraid. Thin ghost then happily came to the world, but he did not investigate, rashly broke into a family. Seeing a mill in the kitchen, he stepped forward and pushed it up. Unfortunately, the family is very poor. They are all short of food and clothing. How can they offer food to him? When the Master heard the noise, he went to the kitchen to check. There was no one in the kitchen, and the mill was turning. He sighed: "the sky pities me, and sent ghosts to help me push the mill." As a result, thin ghost pushed for a long time, not only did not get any food, but also half tired. this story is about the skinny guy who is reckless and fooled, but his original intention is to "make mischief and look for food". From another point of view, as long as given a certain interest, it can drive the ghost to push people. example 3: in Hakka areas, "money can make the devil push the mill" is a well-known "mantra" for women and children. But most people only know the intuitive explanation: "as long as you are willing to spend money, someone will do anything for you", but they may not know the origin of it! starting from a folk song: "Cai Lun, the first master of papermaking, is famous in the world. It seems that the paper money is thin, how much gold and silver can be worth. This is our ancestors' praise of the ancient paper-making masters for the infinite wealth created by human material civilization. But he said that Cai Lun's invention of papermaking was a sensation and suddenly became rich. Those who came to do business and those who wanted to learn technology flooded in. Cai Lun, on the other hand, was only engaged in business. He was afraid that other people would learn technology, rob himself of his job and squeeze out his own financial resources. He refused all those who came to study technology, leaving his younger brother alone. his younger brother is eager to start a workshop at home with his wife because he is eager for money and has not yet learned Kung Fu. It's a pity that the quality of the paper produced is poor and can't be sold out. As soon as the piles pile up, even the old capital will be lost. What should we do? The couple are worried about the pile of paper and don't know what to do Thinking that his wife's brain is easy to use, all of a sudden it's on his mind. As soon as she said it, her husband said it was wonderful. That night, they secretly got a coffin. As soon as the sky turned white, his wife held the coffin and cried out: --- I burned straw paper to cry for Yafu, because papermaking took my life away. Yafu is not a short-lived species. I look like the king of hell. Why did I leave you in my previous life? Why did I stay widowed and bring up your orphan My son is widowed and my mother is reluctant to stay with her husband's life! in this way, I cried until it was dark and dark. For a moment, I startled my neighbors, some came to persuade me, some came to mourn, and all of them wept for her sad cry. But just then, with a thump, the lid of the coffin burst open, and her husband came out: "don't cry, don't cry, don't cry!" all the people present were tongue tied, their faces were like earth, they were shaking all over, and they couldn't even move their feet When she came back to her mind and asked what was the matter, her husband cried and said, "don't you know that Cambodian relatives and neighbors were killed because of papermaking?" go to the hell palace When the king of hell saw that I was empty handed, his face immediately changed color, and he yelled: "do you want to be a ghost or a" Ji "? If you want to be a ghost, why don't you bring a meeting gift?" "after that, he yelled:" put the new guest into prison, punish him to be a coolie and pull a big stone mill! "; today is so good that he has a good wife, burning grass paper all over the sky, burning paper to make money, and flying to the hall of the Lord of hell. When the king of hell saw that he was happy, he opened his mouth and grinned. Seeing that new guests paid tribute, he woke up many times in his dream. The next day, he came to the prison and saw that I was sweating and my shoulder was swollen. He cried, "now you can go back to Yangjian, Xiao Cai!" for a moment, I couldn't believe my ears. When I looked up and saw that it was the Lord of hell, I knelt down and said, "master, you are..." "I checked the longevity book and found that you are not exhausted. You should not come down as soon as possible. It is the person in charge who wronged you because of the wrong information. Today, I will give you a reunion with the husband and wife of Huanyang and have children." "This,..." "It doesn't matter. I'll arrange for the poor to push the mill." "as soon as the story goes, the grass paper of Xiao Cai is sold out. "Money can make the devil push the mill" has become a saying handed down from generation to generation. Note: "Ji" reads Qusheng. Hakka, legend is the ugliest, the most humble of ghosts.

Little story

Once upon a time, there was a man named Yu Miao in Yu village. When he was 40 years old, he was taken away by the imp. on the way to the underworld, Yu Miao said to the imp, "I give you 50000 yuan a year, so you can let me go." When the kid heard that it was profitable, he took away an old man named elm. When the king of hell saw it, he said to the kid, "I told you to hook elm seedlings. How did you hook elm?" "The kid said:" this man is elm seedlings, the elder just become elm When the king of hell heard the kid's nonsense, he said angrily, "go to gouyu Miao!" The kid thought that if yu Miao gave him so much money, he could hook him, so he hooked a guy named Yu Dunzi. He also reported to the king of hell that "the elm was cut down when it died, and now there are only elm stumps left." The king of hell couldn't laugh or cry. He thought to himself: the kid must have accepted a bribe. He decided to go to gouyu Miao by himself and come back to take the kid again. Yan Wang comes to Yu Miao's house and sees Yu Miao pushing the mill. When Yu Miao saw that the king of hell was coming, he begged: "Lord of hell, I have seventy old mothers in my family. Let me push the mill off and then go with you. Otherwise, what will my mother eat in the future?" Seeing that the king of hell shook his head, he said, "I will give you 500000 Ming silver every year." Seeing that the king of hell is indifferent, I will give you a million pieces of silver. " When the king of hell heard this, he was very happy and said, "well, I'll help you push the mill a few times since you are so filial." Then the king of hell began to push the mill. Elm looked at it and said with joy: "Lord Yan, I will give you ten million Ming silver every year. You will let me live a hundred years. Let me die. " As soon as the king of hell heard the ten million silver, he was ecstatic and said, "well, I will fulfill your filial piety." With that, he hooked up a man named Yugen in the village and left. When the kid saw that it wasn't Yu Miao that Yama had hooked back, he asked, "Yama, how can you hook the wrong person?" The king of hell glared at the kid and said, "you are allowed to hook an elm tree or a elm stump, but you are not allowed to hook back the elm root?"

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