Red, purple and vermilion

Red, purple and vermilion

Red, purple and vermilion, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ó ngz à Lu à nzh à, which means red, purple and vermilion refers to variegated and disordered colors. It is a metaphor of evil replacing right. It comes from the Analects of Confucius Yang Huo.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: red, purple and Zhu

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Yang Huo: "Confucius said: the evil purple will take away Zhu." "Zhao Qi's epigraph of Mencius notes" says: "the right side is blocked, the benevolence and righteousness are idle, the sycophant and the hypocrisy gallop, and the red and purple are in disorder."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences