When people gather firewood, the flame is high(zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo)

When people gather firewood, the flame is high

When people gather firewood, the flame is high. In Chinese, it means that when many people add firewood to the burning fire, the flame must be high. It refers to many people and great power. It comes from the collection of Chinese proverbs, volume of Han nationality.

Idiom explanation

[pronunciation] zh ø NgR é NSH í ch á Ihu ǒ y à ng ā o. It means that many people have great power.

Idioms and allusions

"A collection of Chinese proverbs · volume of Han nationality" says: "when people gather firewood, the flame is high, and three families and four depend on the cake." Contemporary, No. 6, 1981: "people gather firewood, and the flame is high. They work with their heart instead of sitting and waiting. This is the foothold of the No. 3 port dredging plan." Also known as "people holding firewood flame high.". People's daily, February 1, 1973: "Funing County Party committee has realized from practice that people hold firewood with high flame." Once upon a time, a jackal, the king of Tuyuhun, had 20 sons. All of his 20 sons are very capable and difficult to share. However, they rely on their ability and do not pay attention to others. They think that only they have the most talent. At ordinary times, 20 sons often fight openly and secretly. They laugh at each other when they meet, and they always like to say bad things about each other behind their backs. Jackal was very worried when he saw the incompatibility between his sons. He understood that the enemy could easily use the incompatibility to break through each one, so that the safety of the country would be on the line. Jackal often uses all kinds of opportunities and occasions to teach his sons to stop attacking and fighting each other and to unite and love each other. However, the sons always listen to their father's words in the left ear and out the right ear, ostensibly pretending to obey the instructions, but in fact they don't pay attention to them. They still go their own way. Jackal is getting old day by day. He knows that he won't be in power for a long time. But after their own death, what do their sons do? No one can teach them and mediate their conflicts any more. Isn't the country going to fall apart? How can we make them understand the need to unite? Jackal is more and more worried. One day, jackal, who was ill for a long time, had a premonition that death was coming, so he finally had an idea. He called his sons to the sickbed and told them, "each of you put an arrow on the ground." The sons did not know why, but they did. Jackal called his brother muliyan and said, "you can pick up any arrow and break it." Muliyan picked up an arrow beside him, and with a little effort, the arrow broke. Jackal said, "now you pick up all the remaining 19 arrows, tie them together and try to break them again." Muliyan grasped the arrow bundle and used his strength. He bent down with his teeth. His neck was full of blue tendons and sweat. He never broke the arrow bundle. Jackal turned slowly to his sons and said with sincere words, "you all know that an arrow breaks with a little break, but when it's together, it doesn't stop breaking. It is the same with you brothers. If you fight with each other and act alone, you will easily be defeated. Only when 20 people unite and make concerted efforts, will you have enormous strength to overcome everything and ensure national security. This is the strength of unity The sons finally realized their father's good intentions, thought of their past behavior, and said with tears of remorse, "father, we understand, you can rest assured!" Seeing that his sons really understood, jackal bowed his head with satisfaction. He closed his eyes and died peacefully.

Discrimination of words

Through this cooperative exploration, we understand the profound truth that people gather firewood and the flame is high. [usage] used as object, clause and attribute. [English] manyhandsmakelighwork. [part of speech] commendatory word this idiom has been listed as the compulsory scope of Beijing high school entrance examination in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Chinese PinYin : zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo