Makong Jibei

Makong Jibei

Ma kongjibei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ K ō NGJ ì B ě I, which means that Bole selects all the good horses in northern Hebei, and it means that the rulers are good at selecting talents. It's from the preface to delivering stones.

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu of Tang Dynasty wrote in the preface to sending Wen Chushi to Heyang army, a collection of Mr. Changli: "as soon as Bole passed the field of northern Hebei, the horses were empty."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: North of Hebei Province

Idiom usage

It refers to making good use of talents. example the phenomenon of Makong Jibei will not reappear.

Idiom story

The interpreter said, "what we are talking about is not that there are no horses, but that there are no good horses. Bole can recognize a horse. He will pick it as soon as he meets a good horse. There is no good horse left in the herd. If there is not a good horse, it is not a lie to say that there is no horse. " Luoyang, the eastern capital, was originally the "northern Hebei" of the literati. There is a man of genuine talent and learning who is not an official. On the North Bank of Luoshui, there is a man named Shisheng. On the South Bank of Luoshui, there is a man named Wensheng. In the third month when Wu Gong, the imperial historian, guarded Heyang as an envoy, he thought Shisheng was a talent, so he recruited him into the shogunate according to the etiquette. After a few months, he thought that Wensheng was a talented person, so he recruited Wensheng into the shogunate through Shisheng. There are many talented people in Dongdu, but how can they afford to pick one in the morning and take the best away, and pick one in the evening and take the best away? In this way, from Dongdu left behind, Henan Yinqi, to the heads of various departments and the officials of our two counties, if there are difficult problems in political affairs or suspicious points in handling cases, who can we find to discuss and properly solve them? Who are the officials going to visit with? Where can the younger generation go to study morality and study? The officials who passed Luoyang from east to West were unable to visit their houses according to the etiquette. Like this, it can be said: "as soon as the censor Wu Gong arrived in Luoyang, there was no one in the residence of Luoyang officials." Can't we? Only the prime minister and the general were entrusted and relied on by the emperor to deal with the affairs of the world. The prime minister collects talents for the emperor to the imperial court, and the general selects literati and warriors for the emperor to the military tent. If this is the case, it is impossible to make the country unstable inside and outside. I'm tied up here and can't retire by myself. I want to spend my old age with the help of Shi and Wen. Now, both of them are going to leave by powerful people. How can I not worry about that? When Wen Shengchu came to visit Wu Gong at the army gate, he hoped to express his congratulations on what I said before for all the people in the world, and to express his complaint about the selection of talents for me. The left behind Prime Minister of Dongdu first wrote a four rhymed poem to praise this, so I wrote this preface according to his poetic meaning.