Be afraid of your shadow

Be afraid of your shadow

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è iy ǐ NGB ì J ì, which means to refer to ordinary people harassing themselves without reason. From Zhuangzi fisherman.

The origin of Idioms

In Zhuangzi fisherman written by Zhuangzi in the pre Qin period, it is said that "people who go away fearing evil deeds, the more they raise their feet, the more they trace, and the more ill they walk, the more they cannot leave their bodies."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive; it has a derogatory meaning; it refers to unreasonable things. In Chen Shu · Xiao Yunzhuan: "Zhuang Zhou's so-called fear of shadow and avoidance of trace, I'm a Buddha."