try to stop the passage of time

try to stop the passage of time

The Chinese idiom ch á ngsh é NGX ì R ì means to tie the sun with a long rope, which means to keep time. From Jiuqu song.

Idiom explanation

Tie: tie, tie.

The origin of Idioms

Fu Xuan's Jiuqu song in Jin Dynasty: "the scenery of the old and the late is far away from the light, and the long rope is tied to the day."

Idiom usage

It is a metaphor to keep time. Example Tang Zhao Mu's poem on wine: "long rope tied to the sun is not stupid, there is Weng in the mirror to smooth his white beard." Li Jia of the Song Dynasty wrote the poem "passing the Qinlou": it's impossible to tie the long rope to the sun when it's scattered Also known as "long rope scenery". "Ho ho! Life is like the clouds and the morning dew. It's better to wait for a long time than to stay away from it. "

Idiom story

Once upon a time, there was an emperor who was so obsessed with the legend of long rope tied to the sun that he couldn't sleep well. He wanted to drag the sun to the palace with a rope because it was full of gold. After some planning by the cabinet minister, he ordered to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country to build a ladder to Japan. Naturally, this ladder is made up of countless smaller ones, and every time a small ladder is built, at least a 40 meter tall tree is needed. This project has almost wiped out the forests of the whole country. On an auspicious day, when he arrived at the sky above the palace at noon, the eunuch in charge of the flag gave an order, and the craftsmen aimed at the sun and quickly began the work of stacking the ladder. Although the sky was not high at that time, and LAN Jingjing felt that she could reach her hand, when the ladder reached the height of the sun, the sun had already moved about three li to the West. The eunuch who climbed the ladder had to carry back the two hundred jin rope for tying the sun. As soon as his feet fell to the ground, he collapsed. the emperor, who had been waiting anxiously in the palace, immediately ordered the recruitment of the most outstanding astronomers and mathematicians in the country. After thirty-seven and twenty-one days of wheel closing calculation, he finally got the exact time when the ladder should be stacked and when it would meet the sun. But when the complacent eunuch climbed to the top of the ladder, he was disappointed to find that the near day was not nearly static as when he was far sighted, but a leisurely time when loach glided and did not tie the rope at all. What's more, it's difficult to keep balance when tying the rope. Accidentally, the ladder and the eunuch at the top are like an inverted pendulum, swinging in the air - so that the frightened eunuch subconsciously holds his hand toward the sun and burns a golden scar on his hand. Although the golden scar stimulated the emperor's fighting spirit, the whole country was still at a loss. On this day, a alchemist came to the palace, claiming that he had just returned from Tianhe by taking a floating raft. He was impressed by the emperor's sincerity and offered a prescription: "theoretically speaking, the day is first and foremost a symbol of time. So if you control the time, you control the day. " In the secret room of the palace, the alchemist whispered to the emperor and ministers in secret. The emperor and ministers nodded their heads as if they knew nothing, and then couldn't wait to ask, "how can we control time?" "There's a way," said the alchemist, standing up straight and confident: "the emperor can order all clocks and watches across the country to stop running and stop at a common moment. In this way, the day will be fixed at this moment - all problems will be solved." Obviously, it was a huge and tedious project, no less than the construction of the Great Wall, but the emperor's determination was firm and unshakable. First of all, it is necessary to hold study classes for officials at all levels to unify their understanding. Then, the officials organized countless propaganda teams to mobilize thousands of households, and promised that after success, each household would get a pure gold yen. The consequences of disobedience are self-evident. People accepted this view suspiciously, took down the clock one after another, put it in front of the case, and prepared to obey the orders. However, this seemingly simple key link, but unexpectedly encountered trouble, because the clock from different manufacturers, quality, in the palace before the request for time, the pace has been different. "We must reach that common moment at the same pace, at the same speed. Otherwise, it will affect the control effect on Japan. " This is the concern of the alchemists. There was no problem that could not be solved by the emperor. He immediately instructed that only one of the largest state-owned clock factories in the country should be left, and the rest should be closed immediately. But there seems to be no end to the problem. For example, how to guide people's specific operation is a headache. The accuracy rate of the palace time pointed to by the pointer must reach "one in 100 million", and this accuracy rate is the target agreed by the ministers after they negotiated with the alchemist for three days and the alchemist made a concession. However, such a large number of illiterates at the lower level simply can not understand what the concept of "one in a billion" is, and how to enter the "one in a billion" accuracy rate is like the timidity of exploring the tiger's hole. But the children have long been curious about these abnormal behaviors of adults, and they keep dialing the pointer at random, causing more chaos. Of course, all these can be solved through education, the emperor firmly believed that overnight, countless fast-growing universities sprang up all over the country, and those with rich financial resources also hired golden haired professors from abroad. the emperor waited for the happy moment with complacency but he didn't expect that the covetous of the throne were also making use of clocks and watches to rebel in secret. They only need a clock and simple tools to point the noon time of the palace to the night. So, up to now, the sun is still running in the sky, and the emperor's descendants are salivating.