serve as a counsellor

serve as a counsellor

Holding a pen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch í Tu ó Z ā Nb ǐ, which means that a servant carries a book and a pen for a consultant. It comes from the biography of Zhao Chongguo in the history of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Zhao Chongguo in the book of Han Dynasty, it is said that "holding a pen, he served emperor Xiaowu for decades."

Idioms and allusions

At the beginning of "biography of Zhao Chongguo, Xin Qingji, biography of Zhao Chongguo" in volume 69 of Hanshu, Wu Xian, a general of the Qiang Dynasty, had a banquet with Zhonglang general ang, saying: "General Zhang Anshi, a cavalry general, was not happy at first. He wanted to punish him. General ang thought that an Shi had been writing for Emperor Wu for several decades, but he was loyal and sincere. It's safe to use it. " And Chong state also said military affairs, Wu Xian quit to the old official, deep hatred, a letter to angxie province in Chinese. He was forbidden to enter simazhong, Mo's residence of the state of Chong. In Tang Dynasty, Yan shigu quoted Zhang Yan as saying: "Ligularia is a kind of Qi capsule. My near ministers were responsible for the hairpin pen. They were consultants, or had discipline. " Shigu said: "Ligularia, so shengshu is also. If there is a bottom, it is a capsule; if there is no bottom, it is a Ligularia. Hairpin author, insert pen in the first. The sound of Ligularia is different from that of Ding At first, Xin Wuxian, a general of the broken Qiang nationality, often chatted with general Banyin of Zhonglang in the army. Banyin said, "Zhang Anshi, a general of motorcycles, didn't agree with Emperor Xuan at the beginning. Emperor Xuan wanted to kill him. My general thought that Zhang Anshi had been loyal to Emperor Wu for ten years and that he should be preserved. That's why Zhang Anshi was saved from death. " When tienchong came back to talk about military affairs with the emperor, Xin Wuxian was dismissed and returned to his original post. With deep resentment in his heart, he filed a lawsuit against Tien Yin for divulging the words of the court. Ban Yin was sent to a judge for trial because he violated the ban to enter the shogunate simazhong and disturb the rules of garrison troops. He committed suicide. "An Shi (Zhang an Shi) originally wrote about Emperor Xiaowu for decades." Yan shigu's note quoted Zhang Yan as saying: "Ligularia is a kind of Qi capsule. My near ministers were responsible for the hairpin pen. They were consultants, or had discipline. " Later, it was called "holding a hairpin pen" for reference. It also refers to the Minister of literature. Also known as "holding Ligularia" and so on.

Idiom usage

In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Xiaoxiang's poem "qingpingle" said: "this place will be five times gone, and next year it will be in the Western Qing Dynasty." Lu You of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "send elder brother Zhong Gao Gong Xue Zhi man to travel in the East Pavilion" and said, "elder brother, when you go to visit the East Pavilion, you can go straight to the north gate. Don't worry about staying late. Gu Ji begs to return home." In Song Dynasty, Liu Kezhuang's poem "Phoenix Pavilion" said: "Fu Rongjun, who chose very common officials to follow him." In Song Dynasty, Zhang Shinan's "biography of wandering officials" Volume 4: "Gong Deng was born in Chu, but his wife is still healthy." The second poem of zayong written by Mazu of Yuan Dynasty: "Guifan sleeps in the temple in front of the mountain at night, and fights outside the car in autumn."