stick to old ways stubbornly in the face of changed circumstances

stick to old ways stubbornly in the face of changed circumstances

Glue the short wood on the harp to adjust the tone. You can't adjust the tone. Metaphor is rigid and inflexible.

Interpretation of Idioms

Explanation: an ancient plucked instrument. Glue the short wood on the harp to adjust the tone. You can't adjust the tone. The source of the book is Wenzi · 5 · Tao Te: "Lao Tzu said:" to hold on to the legal books of the first generation, to the customs that are not handed down from generation to generation, for example, to tune the music with rubber pillars. " How can we draw inferences from examples? In Shi Tong Duan Jie written by Liu Zhiji in Tang Dynasty, it is used as object and attributive; it refers to the rigid person

Original text and Translation

original text

Qi people on Zhao Xuese, because of the first tune, glue column and return. Three years is not a song, Qi people strange. Some people who come from Zhao, ask their meaning, then know how stupid they are.

translate

There was a Qi man who learned to play the zither from Zhao. Zhao adjusted the string first, and then he glued the string to his home. After three years, the Qi people complained about the Zhao people. A man who studied arts with Zhao people came to him and asked him why he complained. Only then did he know that the person in front of him was so stupid.

English translation

1tostubbornlysticktooldwaysinthefaceofchangedcircumstances 2obstinate;inflexible;veryconservative

The origin of Idioms

[entry attribute] derogatory idiom [idiom explanation] refers to stubborn and inflexible. [example of idiom] Chapter 51 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "this elder sister Bao is so much too, so she's so pretentious." [near meaning idiom] carve a boat to seek a sword; [antonym idiom] adapt to circumstances; [grammar usage] as predicate, attribute and object. Stick tool ways stubbornly in the face of changed

origin

Biography of Lin Xiangru in historical records: in the seventh year of Zhao Xiaocheng's reign, the Qin army and Zhao army fought each other in Changping (now the northwest of Gaoping County, Shanxi Province). At this time, Zhao she was dead, Lin Xiangru was seriously ill, and Zhao general Lianpo stuck to the barracks. "Between Zhao Wang and Qin. Qin said: "Qin's evil, only fear the horse, Zhao she's son Zhao Kuo for the ear." The king of Zhao took Kuo as his general and took the place of Lianpo. Lin Xiangru said: "the king's name is like a rubber pillar, and his ears are filled with music. Kuituo was able to read his father's biography, but he didn't know how to change. " The king of Zhao did not listen, so he took it As a result, "the Kuo army was defeated, so hundreds of thousands of people came down to Qin, and Qin knew about the pit."

interpretation

King Zhao Xiaocheng believed the rumors spread by the spies of the state of Qin: the army of Qin was most afraid of Ma Fujun's son Zhao Kuo as a general. Zhao Kuo is the general instead of Lian Po. Lin Xiangru dissuades: the king uses Zhao Kuo by reputation, just like sticking the string on the harp to play the harp. The tone can't be changed. He doesn't know how to adapt to circumstances. The king of Zhao did not listen. As a result, Zhao army was defeated by Qin army and 400000 troops were buried alive. The state of Zhao was almost destroyed. “

Application examples

1. My father once praised and commented in his spare time: "your uncle Cao likes ancient poetry and Ci, which is a bit of an artist's style, but it's too strange to choose words for his daughter's name! . 2. Compared with the above, the interpretation of Shici is more literal, while the interpretation of Wentong is a bit more literal. 3. The people and things in the countryside are vividly written, which inevitably reveals a kind of literary "small family spirit". This is a fair and bitter talk. How to get rid of the "matter of fact" situation, break the dilemma of "being short-sighted" to "looking down", raise the foothold, and constantly improve the coverage of life, is indeed a difficult problem that Gu Hua has been exploring for many years. All the people in Yi are mainly hexagrams. They are obstinate, flexible, and have a lot of mysterious talks about Yin and Yang. Hu Pu'an's Zhouyi Gu Shi Guan boldly put aside the hexagram, which was the symbol of all the thoughts recorded by the ancients before they had written. 5 regardless of the confinement it caused to the thoughts of ancient Chinese literati, the examination content also led to the Chinese literati who despised the natural science and recited the scriptures by rote, wrote poems by jiaozhu tiaoshu, and wrote poems by jiaozhu tiaoshu The atmosphere of discussing political affairs on paper, not to mention that its examination results often determine the honor and disgrace, fortune and misfortune of literati's life. The road of understanding is not a straight narrow bridge. In Gadamer's view, this is an "endless process of game" between the thing itself and our pre judgment. ". In the "game", it is neither appropriate to play with a stick in a stick, nor can it only fall to the level of inconceivable. "Diving back and forth" and "leisurely and playful" can't stop at "the whole of mysterious experience", but look forward to another explanation of understanding framework and text horizon, which is self injury. Why are those who hold this view. This idea is in line with the sentence meaning of "one string and one column thinking about Chinese New Year", and because it has changed from a rubber column to something like this, it is less likely to be wrong. However, only the author can know whether it is right or not.