ask others for help

ask others for help

Shuyun asking for fire, a Chinese idiom, is sh ù y ù NQ ǐ nghu ǒ in pinyin, which means to refer to asking for help from others, and also refers to solving problems for people. It is the same as "asking for fire". It comes from Kuai Tong Zhuan in the history of Han Dynasty.

Idioms and allusions

original text

"Han Shi waizhuan" Volume 7: Li Fu and Li Mu are good to each other. When the woman saw that she was suspicious of stealing meat, her aunt went there and complained to her mother. On her mother's day, she said, "OK, OK. I call you now. " That is, Shu Yun asked fire to go to the woman's house and said, "my dogs fight for meat and kill each other. Please treat it with fire." Gu Naizhi made people chase her back.

It is also recorded in Kuai Tong Zhuan of Hanshu that "Yun" is "Yun" and "please fire" is "beg fire".

translation

The women in the village have a good relationship with an old mother in the village. The woman was suspected of stealing meat at home, and her mother-in-law drove her away. The woman told her mother, who had a good relationship with her, that she said, "go slowly first, and I'll let your mother-in-law chase you." So he took a bunch of firewood to the woman's house and said, "my dogs fight each other for meat. I'll punish them by your fire." The woman's mother-in-law had the woman chased back. Later, it uses idioms such as "Shuyun asking for fire, Shuyun begging for fire". It refers to intercession, dispute resolution and recommendation.

Idiom usage

To refer to a person

Examples

Li Deyu's Ji Xin Fu: Shi Shuyun invited fire, and visiting Peng was inferior to his good neighbor.

Luo Binwang's shangxiaqiu Weiming Fu Qi: it is based on Linzi's left wife, who sent a bundle to Qi's neighbors; it is based on Zhao's prime minister who sent a guest to Handan.

Huang Tingjian's Ci Yun Sun Tzu Shi Ji Shao you: who can borrow the former fund and return it to women.

Du Mu's four rhymes of a long sentence: Jianheng used to know Wenju, but there was no one to make Kuai Tong.

Xu Xuan's "song zuoqianniuwei general's memorial to the Longxi cemetery of the king of Wu": the words of casting Zhuzhi to the bewilderment of his kindred relatives and begging for fire without a wife.

Analysis of Idioms

Helping others out

Antonym: add insult to injury

The origin of Idioms

"Kuai Tong Zhuan" in Hanshu: "that is to ask for fire from the dead meat family."

Idiom story

Once upon a time, there was a mother-in-law who falsely accused her daughter-in-law of stealing the meat from her family. Her daughter-in-law was driven out of the house by her mother-in-law and had to go to her neighbor's aunt to help her redress the injustice. Aunt knew her well, so she came up with a way to borrow fire from her mother-in-law's house. She said that her dog was killed because she was fighting to eat other people's meat. When the mother-in-law knew her mistake, she went to chase her daughter-in-law home