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Green emissary, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin for L ǜ y ī sh ǐ zh ě, originally refers to parrot, modern called postman. It's from the story of Tianbao in Kaiyuan, the parrot tells the story.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao's legacy - Parrot's complaint" in the Five Dynasties: "at that time, my servants and concubines didn't feel it, only a parrot was on the shelf in front of the hall He called the parrot "the green emissary."

Idiom usage

As an object; of a postman. The fourth volume of Cheng dengji's "young learning qionglin" is: "childless, the name of crab; green emissary, the name of parrot."

Idiom story

In the period of Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Yang Chongyi, a rich man in Chang'an, raised a red billed green haired parrot. It was very smart and could learn to talk. Yang Chongyi was murdered by his wife Liu's adultery with Li Yan. Wannian county magistrate solved the case according to the information provided by parrot. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named the parrot the emissary in green. Scholar Zhang Shuo wrote a close-up of the biography of the emissary in green.