go as slowly as ducks or geese do

go as slowly as ducks or geese do

The Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is é x í ngy ā B ù, which means that later people quoted "goose walking duck step" (like goose and duck walking) to describe walking slowly. It comes from Yang Jingxian's journey to the West.

The origin of Idioms

Yang Jingxian's journey to the West: illusory bewilderment of a demon pig: "when you see a man in a gauze hat, a black cloth shirt, a hawk head, a sparrow brain, a wolf's heart, a dog's hide, a goose's walk and a duck's walk, you will be foolish."

Idiom usage

When you two used to lift a sedan chair in the town, how can you walk so fast now? (Chapter 32 of the complete story of the water margin by Shi Naian in Ming Dynasty)

Idioms and allusions

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Gao's wife in Qingfeng Village, Shandong Province, took a sedan chair with seven or eight soldiers and went to the grave. When the Party passed Qingfeng mountain, Wang dwarf tiger, who was occupied by the mountain, scattered the soldiers and took Mrs. nazhizhai up the mountain. At this time, Song Jiang is on Qingfeng mountain. When he learns of this, he comes to intercede and asks Wang Aihu to let Mrs. Liu Gao go. Qingfeng mountain leads Yanshun and Zheng Tianshou. Because of Song Jiang's affection, Wang Aihu, whether he wants to or not, orders the sedan chair driver to carry them down the mountain. After hearing this, the woman put in a candle to thank Song Jiang, and cried out: "thank you, king!" the two sedan bearers were afraid and carried the woman down the mountain. When the woman was captured, several scattered soldiers ran back to report to Liu Gao. When Liu Gao heard this, he was furious, scolded the soldiers and beat them with a big stick. He also yelled: "if you don't get your wife back, you will go to jail and ask for a crime." The soldiers had no choice but to beg 70 or 80 soldiers of our village to hold guns and sticks and try their best to seize them. Don't want to come to half way, is bumping into two sedan chair, carrying zhizhai lady came quickly. The soldiers followed his wife and asked, "how can you go down the mountain?" the woman lied and said, "when they saw that I said it was Mrs. Liu zhizhai, they were so scared that they bowed down and asked the sedan chair driver to take me down the mountain." The soldiers gathered around the sedan chair and returned. Seeing that the sedan chair driver was walking fast, the soldier said, "when you two used to lift the sedan chair in the town, you just walked like a duck, but now how can you walk so fast?" the two sedan chair drivers said, "you can't walk. It seems that someone is beating us behind, so you can run fast."