the overturned cart in front is a warning for those behind

the overturned cart in front is a warning for those behind

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ù ch ē zh ī Ji à n, which means turning over a car as a mirror. It refers to the previous failure, which can be used as a lesson in the future. It comes from the history of the Three Kingdoms, the history of Shu and the biography of Hou Zhu.

Idiom explanation

Overturn: overturn; mirror: mirror.

The origin of Idioms

Pei Songzhi quoted Wang Yin's Shuji in his annotation of the history of the Three Kingdoms, the history of Shu and the biography of Hou Zhu, which said that "Kaiqi died because of long, Gongsun destroyed because of Shu."

Idiom usage

A lesson of failure. Examples, lessons learned from the past, are almost credible. The biography of Yang Ni in the book of Wei and the biography of Yu Chun in the book of Jin: "to be a minister and a Yin in the name of talent is not only a matter of modesty and respect, but also a matter of avoiding the precepts of overturning the cart."

Idiom story

In the Western Han Dynasty, Jia Yi, a native of Luoyang, had a good reputation as a gifted child since childhood. Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty heard that he was very talented and learned, so he asked him to come to Beijing as a doctor and asked him his views on governing the country. Jia Yi advocated taking the fall of the Qin Dynasty as a mirror, always reminding himself to implement benevolent government, let the people recuperate, and attach importance to agricultural production in order to make the country strong.