draw a circle on the ground as a prison for sb

draw a circle on the ground as a prison for sb

It is said that in ancient times, people drew circles on the ground to make criminals stand in circles to show punishment. Used later to refer to a limited range.

interpretation

The 50th chapter of journey to the West written by Wu Chengen of Ming Dynasty: "the ancients delimited the earth as a prison. It's better to delimit the earth as a prison. If there were tigers, wolves and monsters coming, how could they stop them?" Sun Li's dandingji: About Local Literature: "just do it yourself. Why should you limit yourself because others have other choices?" Yuan · Yue Bochuan's the first fold of LV Dongbin's Du Tieguai Li: "all the people who come out of the gate come and go, and there are more private people and less public people. Has there ever been one that conforms to the way of heaven? Every time he pointed out the mountain and sold the mill, he divided the people into dungeons. " Example: "Zhang Fuying can't run, can he?" "He dares." Get ~, not price, with the first year Han long neck like, big green top, is also trouble. The second part of Zhou Libo's stormy rain is used as predicate and object. [distinguish] and draw a dungeon to distinguish: two allusions are different, meaning similar.

allusion

It is said that when gaotao was in charge of justice, he "divided the land into prison" and became the place where criminals were initially supervised. Since then, there has been a prison in China. From then on, "gaotao built a prison and divided the land into prisons" was officially handed down, and gaotao, the pioneer of prison building, was respected as the God of prison and established as his own God by most prisons in the whole country.