be flashy without substance

be flashy without substance

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Hu á é RB ù sh í, which means flowers bloom well but do not bear fruit. It comes from Zuo Qiuming's Zuo Zhuan, the fifth year of Wengong.

The origin of Idioms

Zuo Qiuming's "Zuo Zhuan · Wengong five years": "and flashy, resentment also gathered."

Idiom usage

Mao Zedong's "transforming our learning" said: "gorgeous but not solid, crisp but not strong, this is the style of some comrades in our team." According to the book of mountains and seas, the book of Zhongshan: "seventy miles to the East, it is said to be a half stone mountain. There is grass on it. It is beautiful and tall. It has red leaves and is gorgeous. It is called Jiarong. Those who wear it are not afraid of ting." "In the East China Sea, there is water and red, among which there are jujubes. They are gorgeous but not real." In Han Feizi, it's hard to say: "so for those who are hard to say, their words are more smooth and smooth than their words, but if they are full of foreign language, they think they are flashy but not real." Old note: "Chang Chang, there are also arrangements." In Lun Heng Shu Jie by Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty, "there are things that are flashy but not real, and there are those that are real but not flashy." Chen Shidao of the Song Dynasty wrote in Xie Xuzhou Professor Qi: "it's hard for ordinary gentlemen to enter the festival of stealing the heart of a man who doesn't win. It's hard for ancient scholars to study hard but fail to work, and it's hard for them to be polite but not true." "Good words! This must be done by a wise man. But it's not a long-lasting tool to let off all the beauty and show off all the pomp. " Chapter 46 of Li Baojia's Officialdom: a Taoist is beautiful, but beautiful people are always flashy and refuse to do justice. Therefore, when brothers choose people, they are always in a state of indifference.

Idioms and allusions

In the spring and Autumn period, there was a minister named Yang Chufu in the state of Jin, who liked to talk about wealth. One day, Ning Ying saw that Yang Chufu was very handsome and outstanding, and admired him very much. He said to his wife quietly, "I wanted to go to a man of high moral character, but I haven't found a suitable one for many years. Today, I think Yang Chufu is a good man. I decided to go with him. " Ning Ying gets Yang Chu's father's consent, leaves his wife and follows him. Along the way, Yang Chufu talked with the shopkeeper. He didn't know what to talk about. Ning Ying walked and listened. After a few days, Ning Ying changed his mind and broke up with his father. Seeing that her husband suddenly turned back, the wife didn't know and asked, "it's not easy for you to meet such a person. Why don't you accept him? Aren't you determined? Don't worry about your family. " "I saw that he was a good-looking man and thought that he could be trusted. However, after listening to his remarks, I felt very disgusted. I'm afraid that if I go with him, I won't get an education, but I will suffer a disaster, so I give up my original idea. " Ning Ying said. Sure enough, a year later, Yang Chufu was killed.