cut off the long and compensate the short(zhé cháng bǔ duǎn)

cut off the long and compensate the short

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh é ch á NGB ǔ Du ǎ n, which means to intercept the long and supplement the short. It's a metaphor for using strengths to make up for weaknesses. It comes from Han Feizi, first meeting Qin.

Idiom explanation

Intercept the long and supplement the short. It's a metaphor for using strengths to make up for weaknesses.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: complement each other

The origin of Idioms

Han Feizi, first meeting Qin, said: "today, the land of Qin is thousands of miles away, with hundreds of millions of famous teachers. The order of the steamship state, rewards and punishments, and the terrain is of great interest."

Idiom usage

In Tang Hanyu's statement on salt changing law, it is said that "to make up for one's shortcomings, one can only charge one kilogram of money, but only 167." Song Sushi's "Da Xue Lun Ban Ban Zha Zi" said: "today's officers, how much money they spend every year, and once every few years, can make up for each other's shortcomings. I'll make an appointment with them."

Idioms and allusions

In Han Feizi's first meeting with Qin, Chen Wen said: "it's not wise to speak without knowing; it's disloyal to speak without knowing." If you are unfaithful to an official, you should die. Although I would like to know what I have said and heard, only the king will punish me. Chen Wen: the whole world is Yin Yan Yang Wei, even Jing Gu Qi, accept Han from the west to Qin Qiang dilemma. The minister snickered. There are three deaths in the world, and the world gets them. This is called it! Chen Wen said: "those who attack with disorder will perish; those who attack with evil will perish; those who attack with disobedience will perish.". Today, the Treasury is not full, and the warehouse is empty. According to the people, there are several million soldiers in Zhang's army. Dai Yu, the head of Zhang's army, died as a general in less than a thousand people. The white blade is in the front, the axe is in the back, but you can't die if you go. It's not because the people can't die, it's because you can't die. If you give a reward, you will not give it; if you give a punishment, you will not do it; if you don't believe in the reward and punishment, you will not die. Today, the Qin Dynasty gives orders and rewards and punishments, which are meritorious but not meritorious. Out of his parents' arms, he never saw Kou er. It's also true that when one hears of the war, he is stunned, committed a crime, and died of the former. It's different between husband's death and life's death, but the people's death is also precious. A man can fight against ten, ten against a hundred, a hundred against a thousand, a thousand against ten thousand, and ten thousand against the world. Today, the land of Qin is thousands of miles away, with millions of famous teachers. Qin's orders, rewards and punishments, terrain interests, the world is also. In this way, it can be combined with the world. It is because of this that Qin's war never failed to win, attack never failed to win, and when it did, it never failed to break. It opened up thousands of miles of land, which was also a great achievement. However, the soldiers, the scholars and the people were ill, the accumulation of rope, the shortage of farmland, the empty granary, the neighboring princes were not satisfied, and the name of overlord was not achieved. This is the same reason, his advisers are not loyal. The officials dare to say: to the south of Qi, to the East, to the Song Dynasty, to the west, to the Qin Dynasty, to the north, to the Yan Dynasty, to the Chinese envoys, Han and Wei, with a vast territory and strong troops, to conquer and seize, to order the world. The Great Wall is a great defense, enough to be a fortress. Qi is also a country with five wars. It can not be conquered without Qi in the first World War. From this point of view, the husband of war, Wancheng's survival. And heard it said: "cut trace no root, no and disaster neighbor, disaster is not exist." The Qin Dynasty fought with the people of Jing, broke through Jing, attacked Ying, and took Dongting, Wuhu, and Jiangnan. The king and officials of Jing died, and served Chen in the East. At this time, with Jing as an army, Jing can be promoted; with Jing as an example, the people will be greedy and the land will be profitable. In the East, Qi and Yan will be weak, and in the middle, three Jin will be weak. However, in one fell swoop, the name of overlord can be achieved, and the neighboring Marquises can be ruled, but the counsellors did not do it, leading the army to retreat, and making peace with the Jing people. Jing people had to accept the subjugation, gather and disperse the people, set up the country leader, set up the ancestral temple, and made it difficult to lead the people to the West. This is the way to lose hegemony. The whole world was more powerful than that of Zhou Dynasty. The king broke it with an imperial edict and sent his troops to Liang Guo. If the Liang is surrounded for ten days, the Liang can be pulled out; if the Liang is pulled out, the Wei can be lifted; if the Wei is lifted, the meaning of Jing and Zhao will be lost; if the meaning of Jing and Zhao is lost, the Zhao will be in danger; if the Zhao is in danger, the Jing will be suspicious; if the Qi and Yan are weak in the East, the three Jin are weak in the middle. However, in one fell swoop, the name of overlord can be achieved, and the neighboring Marquises can be ruled, but the counsellors did not do it. They led the army and retreated, and made peace with the Wei family. He ordered the Wei family to fight against the subjugation of the state, gather and disperse the people, set up the country leader, set up the ancestral temple, and made it difficult to lead the western side of the world to the Qin Dynasty. There are two ways to lose hegemony. In the former, when he ruled Qin, he wanted to use the soldiers of one country to achieve the success of the two countries. Therefore, the soldiers were exposed to the outside world all their lives, the scholars and the people were tired and sick at home, and the name of overlord could not be achieved. There are three ways to lose hegemony. the Zhao family is the state of the central government and the residence of miscellaneous people, whose people are light and difficult to use. If the order is not obeyed, the reward and punishment are not believed, and the terrain is inconvenient, the people can not do their best. He was not worried about the people. He learned that his people's army was under Changping to fight for the Han Shangdang. The king broke it with an imperial edict and pulled out Wu'an. When it was time, the Zhao family didn't go on blind dates, and they didn't believe it. But Handan is not. He pulled up Handan and took charge of Hejian in Shandong Province. He led the army to the west to cultivate martial arts. He surpassed China, jiangdai and Shangdang. There were 46 counties in the Dai Dynasty and 70 counties in the Shangdang. They did not need one leader or one scholar. It is the Qin Dynasty that did not fight with the daidang and Shangdang; it is the Qi Dynasty that did not fight with Dongyang and hewai; it is the Yan dynasty that did not fight with the north of Zhongshan and Huzhou. However, it was Zhao Ju, who killed Han. When Han died, Jing and Wei could not be independent. If Jing and Wei could not be independent, Han, Wei and Ba Jing would be destroyed at one stroke. In the East, Qi and Yan would be weakened, and the mouth of white horse would be wowei. The king hangs the arch to have to, the world arranges along with but obeys, the overlord's name may become. The counsellor did not do it, but led the army to retreat and made peace with the Zhao family. Because of the wisdom of the king and the strength of the Qin army, he abandoned the occupation of the overlord. The land was once unavailable, but he cheated the country. It's the clumsiness of a counsellor. And the husband Zhao should perish but not perish, Qin should be hegemonic but not hegemonic. However, when the soldiers came to attack Handan, they were unable to pull out the crossbow and abandoned the armour crossbow. The army is led back, and in the Fu, the king and the army, and war can not be overcome, also can not be against, the army left, the world solid quantity Qin Li three. Those inside measure our counsellors, while those outside measure our troops. From the point of view, the minister thinks that the world can't follow. On the inside, I'm a soldier; on the other hand, I'm a scholar; on the other hand, I'm a scholar; on the other hand, I'm a scholar. May the king have something to worry about. When he heard of it, he said, "shudder, be careful every day. If you are careful in your way, there will be something in the world." How to know it? In the past, Zhou was the son of heaven, leading millions of soldiers in the world. He drank from Qixi on the left and from Huanxi on the right. Qi water was exhausted, but Huan water did not flow, so he was in a dilemma with King Wu of Zhou. King Wu's general Su Jia 3000 fought for one day to break the state of Zhou. He had his own people according to his land. There was no harm in the world. Zhibo led the people of the Three Kingdoms to attack Zhao Xiangzhu in Jinyang. In March, he broke the water and irrigated it. The city was pulled out. Xiangzhu divined and divined in order to see what country could come down. It was Zhang Meng, his minister. Therefore, he sneaked out and went against Bo's agreement. He got the people of the two countries to attack Bo and help him return to the beginning of the Lord. Today, there are thousands of miles in the land of Qin, and there are millions of famous teachers. The order of the state of Qin, reward and punishment, terrain interests, the world is also. This can be combined with the world. When Chen Ming died, he was willing to see the king, so he broke the world's obedience. He promoted Zhao, killed Han, and courted Jing, Wei, Qin Qi and Yan. In the name of becoming a overlord, he ruled the way of the neighboring princes. The king listened to him sincerely. He never broke the world at one stroke. Zhao Buju, Han Busheng, Jing and Wei buchen, Qi and Yan Bubei, and the name of overlord was not successful. The neighboring princes did not rule. The king killed his ministers to favor the country, and thought that the king was cheating. I've heard that it's not wise to say if you don't know, but it's not loyal if you don't know If you are not loyal as a minister, you should die; if you don't speak properly, you should die. In spite of this, I'm willing to tell you all what I've seen and heard, and ask your majesty to judge me as guilty. I heard that the northern Yan and the southern Wei in the world connected Chu and Qi, and combined with South Korea to form a vertical trend. They planned to fight against the strong Qin in the West. I laughed at them in private. There are three ways to perish in the world. All the six countries have occupied it. That is to say, the situation of jointly attacking Qin. I have heard that "with the attack of chaos, the stable will perish, with the attack of evil, the just will perish, with the attack of routine perversion, those who are in accordance with heaven will perish." Nowadays, the six countries are dissatisfied with their coffers and empty granaries. They recruit people from all over the country and expand their army by tens of millions. Among them, more than a thousand people who ordered Dai Yu to be a general and vowed to fight in the front line say they are not afraid of death. At present, when the instrument of torture is behind, the blade still retreats and escapes, and can't fight to death. It's not because these soldiers can't fight to death, but because the monarchs of the six countries can't make them fight to death. Those who say they want rewards are not paid, and those who say they want punishments are not implemented. The rewards and punishments are dishonest, so the soldiers do not want to fight to the death. Nowadays, the state of Qin promulgated laws and decrees and implemented rewards and punishments, and treated the meritorious and the reactive separately. People have never seen an enemy since they broke away from their parents. However, when they heard about the war, they stamped their feet bare, faced the sharp edge and stepped on the charcoal fire to fight to death. The reason why people are willing to fight to death is that they advocate the spirit of giving up life and forgetting death. One man can fight against ten, ten can be a hundred, a hundred can be a man, a man can be a man, a man can be a man, and a man can win the world. Today, the territory of the state of Qin is cut short, covering thousands of miles, with tens of millions of famous teachers. Qin's laws, rewards and punishments are strict, and its geographical position is favorable, which is unmatched by any other country in the world. With these, the world can acquire and possess without any effort. Therefore, the state of Qin has won wars, conquered cities, and defeated resistance forces. It has made great achievements in opening up a frontier for thousands of miles. But the soldiers were tired, the people were tired, the savings were exhausted, the fields were deserted, the granaries were empty, the neighboring princes were not satisfied, and the name of the overlord was not successful. There was no other reason. It's just that the counsellors of the state of Qin were not loyal. In the past, the state of Qi defeated the Chu army in the south, defeated the king of song in the East, and forced the state of Qin to obey in the West

Chinese PinYin : zhé cháng bǔ duǎn