Round wooden police pillow(yuán mù jǐng zhěn)

Round wooden police pillow

Round wooden pillow, a Chinese idiom, pronounced Yu á nm ù J ǐ ngzh ě n, means wooden round pillow. It is easy to roll and inconvenient to support. When you fall asleep, you wake up with a start. It comes from Sima Wen's memorial to the throne by fan Zuyu of Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Fan Zuyu of the Song Dynasty wrote in Sima Wen's mind that "a log is used as an alarm pillow, while a nap turns the pillow to sleep, which is the beginning of reading."

Idiom usage

His learning spirit is worth learning.

Idiom story

When he was a child, he studied with his brothers. He felt that his memory was poor, so he tried to overcome this weakness. When the teacher finished the book, the brothers read it for a while and could barely recite it. One by one, they threw away the books and ran to the yard to play. Only when he refuses to leave, closes the door and window gently, focuses on reading aloud, and reads it again and again, until he is familiar with it, closes the book, and can recite it fluently and word by word, can he rest. Sima Guang has been studying unremittingly since he was young, but he has been working harder since he became an official. He lives in a place where there are no other precious furnishings except books and bedding. Bedding is very simple: a wooden bed, a coarse cloth quilt, a log pillow. Why use a log pillow? It's interesting to say that when reading is too sleepy, a sleep is a long time. The log pillow is easy to roll on the hard wooden bed. Just a little movement and it rolls away. Head fell on the wooden bed, "Dong" sound, he woke up will immediately get up to read. Sima Guang gave the log pillow a name: "police pillow."

Chinese PinYin : yuán mù jǐng zhěn