The moon is full of furs

The moon is full of furs

Wu Yue PI Qiu is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is w ǔ Yu è P ī Qi ú, which refers to honesty and uprightness. It comes from the biography of Gao Shi.

Idiom usage

It refers to a person who is clean and honest and formal

The origin of Idioms

On the volume of biography of Gao Shi written by huangfumi of Jin Dynasty: "if the May moon is full of furs and the salary is negative, who will take the gold?"

Idiom story

During the spring and Autumn period, Ji Zi of the state of Wu visited the state of Qi. While enjoying the scenery, Ji Zi of Yanling suddenly finds something shining on the road. It turned out to be gold. "Someone must have left it here." Yanling Jizi thought. Just at this time, a man came slowly from the opposite side. Yanling Ji Zi looked up and saw that he was a firewood chopper with a machete and a shoulder pole. However, this firewood cutter is different in one thing: it's already very hot in May, but he is still wearing a fur coat. Yanling Jizi thought that the firewood chopper was poor and mentally abnormal, so he pitied him very much. So he called out: "Hey, woodcutter, take the gold from the ground!" Unexpectedly, the firewood chopper threw his knife to the ground and glared at Jizi in Yanling angrily. He shook his hand and scolded: "you must have a noble position, but your eyes are so short-sighted; you look elegant, but you are not polite at all!" "Isn't it good for you to pick up the gold?" Yanling Jizi saw the man angry, wrongly said. The firewood chopper looked at Jizi in Yanling scornfully and said, "I go to chop firewood in May in summer in my fur coat. Am I the one who picks up gold?" On hearing this, Ji Zi of Yanling suddenly realized it and immediately apologized: "I'm really sorry, I forgot for a moment that you are a hermit sage. May I have your name, please The firewood cutter gave a cold smile and said, "you are a vulgar person who judges people by their appearance. I am not worth telling you my name!" After the firewood cutter said that, he left behind Ji Zi of Yanling and went away. later, the allusion of "the May moon in a fur coat" was used to refer to the sages and scholars who lived in seclusion in the mountains.