deceive oneself and others(zì qī qī rén)

deceive oneself and others

Self deception, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ì Q ī Q ī R é n, which means to deceive yourself and others. Now refers to "is clearly know the truth, but deceive oneself also deceive others, generally refers to not willing to face the fact." From Zhu Zi Yu Lei.

The origin of Idioms

Li Jingde's Zhu Zi Yu Lei of the Song Dynasty (Volume 16): because he said that he deceived himself, he said: "deceiving others is also deceiving himself, and this is the worst of self deceiving."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning.

Examples

Some people say that China's industry and Commerce will be promoted by this. That's the talk of. (Lu Xun's two places Book 29)

If you want to talk about Chinese, you must not be cheated by the powder on the surface, but look at his muscles and spine. (Lu Xun's "have the Chinese lost their confidence?"

Idioms and allusions

original text

Chu people, who lived in poverty, read Huainan, and found that "the mantis waits on the cicada and leaves can be invisible", so he took the leaves from under the tree -- the mantis holds the leaves and waits on the cicada to pick them. The leaves fall under the tree. There are fallen leaves under the tree first, and they cannot be separated again. So he took the number and returned, and took ye Zizhang one by one, and asked his wife, "do you see me?" At the beginning, his wife always said "see", but after days, she was tired of it and said "no see". Hey, I'm very happy. I'm in the market, and I'm looking for people. The official then bound Yi county. The county magistrate accepted the resignation and told himself the whole story. The magistrate laughed and let it go.

translation

There was a man from the state of Chu who lived in poverty. When he read Huainan once, he saw that "the mantis uses leaves to cover his body when he peeps at cicadas, so he can hide his body in this way." so he lifted up under the tree to pick up the leaves - the leaf that the mantis uses to hide himself when he peeps at cicadas. This leaf fell under the tree. There were many fallen leaves under the tree. We can't tell which one is the invisible one. Then the people of Chu gathered several baskets of leaves under the tree, took them home, covered themselves with leaves one by one, and asked their wives, "can you see me?" His wife always said "visible" at the beginning. After a whole day, she was so tired that she had to cheat him into saying "invisible". Chu people were secretly happy. They took ye into the market and took other people's goods in front of them. So the officers tied him up and sent him to the county yamen. The county magistrate interrogated him and laughed after hearing what he had said. He let him go without punishment.

Chinese PinYin : zì qī qī rén