sound the call for attack

sound the call for attack

It comes from the Analects of Confucius to beat the drum. Attack: denounce. To denounce in a big way. It means to declare a crime, reprimand or denounce.

essential information

[source] (1) it's not my apprentice, but I'm a good one. "The Analects of Confucius advanced" (2) the heresy in this scholar, you beat the drum and attack it! But read in the sky is late, can live with China, quickly lead him to the West small room! Chapter 7 of the wizard of Oz by Li Baichuan in the Qing Dynasty (3) in the Late Jin Dynasty, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Jia Wei and other books of the old Tang Dynasty, Jing zongben Ji: "Wang Bo was in charge of the salt and iron, and he was in charge of Qian Jinfeng with Zheng, he was in favor of Xi, he was called Xianyu, he talked about things and beat the drums to attack." He made another attack. (4) in the story of the Golden Lotus · gouqian written by Chen Ruyuan of Ming Dynasty, it is said that "the teacher must attack with a drum to avoid offending the holy sect." (5) thirty nine chapters in the biography of heroes and heroines written by Wen Kang of Qing Dynasty: "now that I'm waiting for you to come back, they shut their doors and say that I'm not an easy-going person. They all" beat the drum and attack. " [idiom story] in the spring and Autumn period, Ji Kangzi of the state of Lu advocated the reform of the farmland system and recognized that private people could own land. He wanted to try to levy taxes by mu. Ran Qiu, his subordinate, was a student of Confucius, so he asked ran Qiu to consult Confucius. Confucius opposed to changing the royal law, and ran Qiu supported Ji Kangzi's reform. Confucius called on his other students to attack ran Qiu with drums.

Basic meaning

[explanation] drumming: drumming. Attack: denounce. To denounce in a big way. It means to declare a crime, reprimand or denounce. [synonym] attack by words, attack by groups, attack by singing drums

grammatical function

To denounce in public