a hidden danger

a hidden danger

A Chinese idiom, Cu ò Hu ǒ J ī x ī n, refers to the great danger of putting fire under a woodpile.

Pinyin

cuòhuǒjīxīn

explain

Putting a fire under a woodpile is a metaphor for great danger.

Classics

Ban Gu's biography of Jia Yi in the book of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty: when my husband was living in a fire house, the fire didn't catch fire. It's called an, so why is the current situation so different. When things are over, they are happy as before. When they are living in a house full of fire, they are sleeping on it, singing and dancing, and people's grievances are boiling. When they die, they can't control themselves. ——Popular romance of the Republic of China by Cai Dongfan and Xu Xianfu

Discrimination

Usage: used as attributive; with derogatory meaning, metaphors hide great disaster. example: to do something immoral with your heart is nothing more than to accumulate money and misfortune.

Idiom story

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Jia Yi, a famous statesman, wrote a letter to Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty many times to state the malpractice of society, and wrote the famous "Chen Zhengshi Shu". He thought that the current political situation was very bad, and there were many things that went against reason and hurt morality, which should be eliminated. If you don't see it, it's just as dangerous as a fire.