flatter in order to obtain favour

flatter in order to obtain favour

Flattery, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ē y ú Q ǔ R ó ng, which means flattering others to get their joy. It comes from Yang Bing's play impeachment Hou LAN of Han Dynasty.

Explanation of words

Flattery: flattery; flattery: please. Flatter others for their pleasure.

Source of words

Kong Congzi. Kangzhi, written by Kong Hong in the Western Han Dynasty: it is not the place of ceremony, but flattery.

Idiom story

There is a record in Qianji: in the 13th year of Yongle, tingzan said that he was in charge of the Northern Expedition and issued an imperial edict to Dayan mountain in Wuchuan County, Sinan. It is said that the emperor's kindness and power spread far away, and the mountains are efficacious. LV Zhen, Minister of rites, led a group of ministers to express his congratulations. Jiang tingzan was the first governor of Guizhou Province in the 11th year of Yongle (1413 AD). After he took office, he did some practical work and had a good reputation. Later, he was confused. Maybe he accepted the bad idea of his subordinates and connected Valley echo with the spread of emperor Enwei Please the emperor. A group of officials headed by LV Zhen, Minister of rites, also took the opportunity to speculate and flatter. Fortunately, Emperor Yongle was not a fatuous monarch. He made a severe criticism on this matter: people and officials should serve the monarch and flatter my husband. Between the noisy valleys, the empty voice should be heard. It is not strange that there may be reason. If the chief officials don't observe, they think it's auspicious. As a minister of the country, you can't tell the right from the wrong, and you want to flatter me. It's not the way of a gentleman. The officials like Jiang tingzan also faked strange things to flatter the superior, and flattered and flattered my husband. The ministers of the imperial court were not gentlemen, which showed the corruption of the officialdom at that time. In fact, the phenomenon of flattery had existed long before Jiang tingzan, and it didn't disappear after him. The most valuable thing is that Emperor Yongle can keep a sober mind in the wave of flattery. On the one hand, it shows that he is a wise monarch, on the other hand, it also shows that he has rich knowledge. If he even makes noise in the valley, there is no empty voice Should, reason or have, it is not strange things do not understand, is sure to be fooled into Longyan great joy, and even reward the officials, leaving behind eternal jokes.

Word usage

It refers to using various means to please others.

Discrimination of words

Yang Bing's book of impeachment: today, those who are spoiled and in power, who flatter and flatter others, will take advantage of their own interests. Kuang Heng's biography in the book of Han Dynasty: however, flattery is subordinate to others, and there is no sense of minister assisting politics. Bao Shichen's Yi Zhou Shuang Ji. On the six states in historical records: in the world of severe punishment, one has to flatter and flatter one's heart to change one's body for profit. Shi Gong hurt him by saying that one should be humble at the beginning and guard against profit with propriety and righteousness. There are many accidents, but on the contrary, one's duty is the same. The harsh laws and bloody cleansing made all the ministers in the court terrified. In order to save their lives, they had to flatter. When the monarch or superior is perverse and stupid, the literati often flatter and flatter; when they are open-minded, they remonstrate.