dragons and fishes jumbled together(yú lóng hùn zá)

dragons and fishes jumbled together

The pronunciation is y ú L ó NGH ù NZ á, a Chinese idiom, which means to describe the mixture of good and bad people. Now it can also describe the mixture of good and bad things. It comes from the poem of he Yufu by Zhang Zhihe of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Zhihe of the Tang Dynasty and his poem with fishermen 13: "the wind stirs the sky, the waves stirs the wind, and the fish and Dragons mingle in a river."

Idioms and allusions

In the spring and Autumn period, Wu Zixu fled to the state of Wu because his father and brother were killed by King Ping of Chu. He told King Helu that there was no distinction between black and white in the state of Chu, and that human beings and demons were upside down. Wu Zixu encouraged the king of Wu to attack the state of Chu. He won five battles and hit Yingcheng, the capital of the state of Chu. King Ping of Chu was dead. In order to avenge his father's death, Wu Zixu dug a grave and whipped his body.

Idiom usage

Nowadays, there are so many people with disordered hands and a mixture of good and bad things that they also wash away. (Chapter 94 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty). (the XIII of he Yufu Ci by Zhang Zhihe in Tang Dynasty)

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] the good and the bad are intermingled; the dragon and the snake are mixed; and [antonym] is clear, black and white

Chinese PinYin : yú lóng hùn zá