pretending to be wealthy and generous

pretending to be wealthy and generous

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch à ngch ó Uli á ngsh à, which means to treat sand as rice and shout numbers when measuring it; it means to stabilize the morale of the army and create false images to confuse the enemy. It comes from the biography of Tan Daoji.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Tan Daoji in the southern history of China, "the night of Daoji's singing is to measure the sand, and the rest of the rice is scattered on it. In addition, the Wei army said that they had more than enough capital and food, so they did not pursue it any more. "

Idiom usage

To make a false impression to confuse the other party. Why did he leave with you at that time? It's called the ~ meter. The seventy second chapter of Dangkou Zhi by Yu Wanchun in Qing Dynasty

Idiom story

In the first year of Yuanjia, Emperor Wen of the Southern Song Dynasty, general Tan Daoji of the Song Dynasty launched an expedition to the Northern Wei Dynasty. All the way, he was alone and went deep into the Northern Wei Dynasty. Tan Daoji ordered the soldiers to use sand to weigh rice and sing loudly to confuse the spies of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and finally safely withdrew to the Song Dynasty.