Seven steps ahead

Seven steps ahead

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is C á Ig ā OQ ī B ù, which means quick thinking. It's from a new account of the world literature.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yiqing's Shishuoxinyu · literature in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Emperor Wen (Cao Pi) ordered the king of Dong'e (Cao Zhi), a younger brother of PI, to write poems in seven steps, and those who failed to do so would practice Dafa. In response to the voice, the poem said:" boil beans, hold them as soup, percolate them as juice; the dustpan burns under the cauldron, and the beans cry in the cauldron. We are all born of the same root. Why are we in such a hurry? "

Idiom usage

It refers to a person's literary talent. Examples there are people in Datong who have learned the five classics, have seven steps of talent, hold their own talents, and are unwilling to bend their ambition to others. They are so arrogant that they do not want to go for a job. On the contrary, they suffer from hunger, cold and loneliness. West Lake Episode II: seven prostitutes and zov becoming famous