negligent in attending to one's guests(yuán lóng gāo wò)

negligent in attending to one's guests

Yuan long Gao Wo, a Chinese idiom, is Yu á NL ó NGG ā owॸin Pinyin, which originally means that Chen Deng lies in a big bed to let guests get out of bed. After the analogy to the guests disrespectful. It comes from the biography of Chen dengzhuan.

Idiom explanation

Yuanlong: Chen Deng in the Three Kingdoms, the character Yuanlong. Chen Deng was supposed to lie in a big bed and let the guests get out of bed. After the analogy to the guests disrespectful.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Chen dengzhuan in the history of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "the dragon of Yuan Dynasty has no intention of being a guest or a master, and has not spoken to each other for a long time. He goes up to the big bed and makes the guest get out of bed."

Idioms and allusions

Later, Xu Si and Liu Bei sat together at Mu Liu Biao's office in Jingzhou. Liu Biao and Liu Bei discussed the world together. Xu Si said, "Chen Deng is a man of the world. He is bold and unrestrained." Liu Bei asked Liu Biao, "is Xu Sijun right?" Liu Biao said, "if you say no, Xu Sijun is a good man and can't say anything false. If you say he is right, Chen Yuanlong is famous all over the world." Liu Bei asked Xu Si, "do you have any examples of his arrogance?" Xu Si said, "I was once in chaos of war. When I passed xiapi, I went to see Chen Deng. He didn't mean to entertain the guests. He didn't talk to me for a long time. He went to the big bed and asked me to get out of bed. " Liu Bei said: "you have the reputation of a statesman. The world is in chaos. The emperor can't be in power. I hope you are worried about your country and forget your family, and have a little idea of saving the world. But you are busy buying land all day and asking about the price of real estate everywhere. What you say can't be taken as good advice. This is Yuanlong's taboo style. Why should he talk to you? If I was in the lower then, I would sleep on the floor 100 feet, so that you could sleep on the floor, how could you just get out of bed? "Chen Deng, who had seen Chen Deng, was very lazy. He not only did not answer for it, but also had to rest in bed to make the guest lie in bed. As a result, Xu Si was very dissatisfied. Later, when he talked about the world with Liu Biao and Liu Bei, he began to complain. Liu Bei criticizes Xu si very impolitely. He knows how to ask for the land and ask for the house. Chen Deng's state of mind is much higher than Xu Si's. If you come to see me, I'll lie on a hundred foot high building and let you lie on the ground. Later, he used "Yuanlong high lying, Yuanlong baichi building, Yuanlong upstairs, getting up and down bed, getting out of bed, getting out of bed, getting out of bed" to describe the high place and the great difference between the high and the low; or refers to the noble person; also refers to the simple and slow guests.

Chinese PinYin : yuán lóng gāo wò