go hunting

go hunting

Flying eagle and running dog, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē iy ī ngz ǒ UG ǒ u, which means to send hawk and dog to chase wild animals. A life of hunting and wandering. It comes from the biography of Geng Gong.

Analysis of Idioms

Flying eagle and dog

The origin of Idioms

Geng Gong's biography of dongguanhanji: "soldiers are not worried, soldiers are indulgent, eagles and running dogs are on the game road."

Idiom usage

It refers to hunting. In ancient times, the emperor was on the top of the nine. In Japan, he and his minister, the old Confucian, emphasized the rule of Taoism. As for ~, it was not his business. History of the Yuan Dynasty, biography of Tuotuo, biography of Yuan Shu, the book of the later Han Dynasty, written by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty, said: "don't be chivalrous, count the flying eagles and running dogs with the princes."

Idioms and allusions

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Shu, a powerful minister, was not engaged in his official career when he was young, and he often enjoyed himself with flying eagles and running dogs. When he was the governor of Nanyang, his life was very extravagant and wasteful, and he often went to the people to plunder property. In the second year of Jian'an, despite the opposition of his subordinates, he became emperor in Shouchun. All day long, he was a delicacy, while his subordinates were in hunger and poverty. The people hated him to the bone.