vain hope

vain hope

It refers to the desire to be an official, rich and immortal, or to greed and delusion. The same as "riding crane to Yangzhou".

Idiom explanation

[idiom]: riding a crane in the sky [Pinyin]: Q í h è sh à ngy á ng à [explanation]: it refers to the desire to be an official, rich and immortal, or to greed and delusion. The same as "riding crane to Yangzhou".

Idioms and allusions

Source: Chinese idiom, from Shuo Ying (f ú) · Shang Yun's novel. It refers to the desire to be an official, rich and immortal, or to greed and delusion. The same as "riding crane to Yangzhou". "Riding crane to Yangzhou" is used to satirize people's greed and unrealistic fantasy. Tao Zongyi was a writer in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. He was a Jinshi in the late Yuan Dynasty, but failed in the examination. He was an instructor in the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty. Tao Zongyi was diligent in recording various laws and regulations, and compiled the record of stopping farming in Nancun. He also edited Shuo Ying from his predecessors' novel notes. In Shuo Ying · Shang Yun's novel, there is a story: one day, several people talked about their ambition together. Some people want to be a thorn official in Yangzhou; some want to get rich, want to get a lot of property and money; but some people fantasize that they can ride cranes to travel in space. Among these people, one said that he hoped to put 100000 yuan in his pocket, and then ride a crane to Yangzhou to become an official. He hoped that all the wishes put forward by the people could be realized in him. In fact, this can only be his personal delusion, which is impossible to achieve. The sixth volume of the novel written by Liang Yinyun in the Southern Dynasty: "there are guests who follow each other, and their wishes are as follows: either they used to be the governor of Yangzhou, or they had a lot of money, or they used to ride a crane up. One of them said:" one hundred thousand yuan, riding a crane up Yangzhou. " I want to combine the three. "

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: qhsy