Half done

Half done

In Chinese, Pinyin is B à NT ú é RB à, which means doing things from beginning to end. It comes from Han Yu's on Huaixi affairs in Tang Dynasty.

Interpretation of Idioms

It ends on the way. It means doing things from beginning to end. It's the same as "half painting and giving up".

The origin of Idioms

In Han Yu's statement on Huaixi affairs in Tang Dynasty, it is said that "if your majesty does not hold it firmly, he will give up halfway, which will hurt the prestige and cost, and the harm will be deep."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, adverbial and attribute. "On Huaixi affairs" is a famous work of Han Yu, the head of eight famous writers in Tang and Song dynasties. Like another article about Huaixi, pinghuaixi stele, it is all about Zhumadian. Huaixi is a place name in the Tang Dynasty. It generally refers to the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, including Anhui, Hubei, the northern part of the Yangtze River and the southeastern part of Henan. Its name comes from the Western Huainan road in the Tang Dynasty, so it is called Huaixi for short. The reason why we define Han Yu's statement of Huaixi affairs as Zhumadian is that the government of Huaixi is in Runan. In the article "on Huaixi affairs", Han Yu's main task is to take away the rebel leader Wu Yuanji, who is shrinking in Runan to compete with the imperial court. Han Yu, as a government official of Tang Dynasty, was a main combatant. In this article, he strongly advocated sending troops to exterminate the rebels, and earnestly advised the Emperor: "emperor! If you can't insist on putting down the rebellion, and things just fall by the wayside, the final result will be to damage the national prestige, waste money, and do great harm! " This memorial must have played a role, and the emperor finally made up his mind. In 817 ad, the Tang Dynasty pacified Wu Yuanji with one of the most classic battles in the history of Chinese military: "Li Guang entered caizhou on a snowy night". After that, the emperor ordered Han Yu to set up a monument for the fight against the rebellion. Han Yu wrote the most important article in his life, the tablet of pinghuai West, which summed up the battle. The tablet was set up at Beiguan of Runan County at that time.