take pleasure in other people's misfortune

take pleasure in other people's misfortune

Schadenfreude, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ì ngz ā IL è Hu. It means that people lack goodwill and feel happy when other people encounter disaster or misfortune. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the fourteenth year of Duke Fu.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] falling into the well and falling into the stone

The origin of Idioms

"Zuo Zhuan · the fourteenth year of the Duke of Fu" said: "back Shi without relatives, fortunately disaster is not benevolent."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Example: twenty years of the Duke of Zhuang: "today the prince is decadent, singing and dancing tirelessly, and he is happy with misfortune." Yan Zhitui's "family precepts of Yan Family · admonishment of soldiers" in the Northern Qi Dynasty: "if you live in the world of Chengping, you will look down on gongkuai and gloat for misfortune. The first is rebellious chaos, and you will be kind This is the root of the destruction of the family. " 〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝〝. "The 166th biography of the history of the Song Dynasty:" when you stand at the edge of the road, you should help yourself to solve the problem. Instead, you should gloat over the misfortune and have no intention of helping each other in the same boat. " Chapter 2-5 of "a warning to the world" says: "every time I see the bad customs of Wu Xia, the distress of my friends, and the empty words of consolation, there is no benefit at all. Even when I face the right and wrong, I gloat over the misfortune, which I usually hate deeply." Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty, Volume 8 of Xingshi Hengyan: "for this reason, the two lower levels are at odds with each other. I hope the Liu family has some accidents and gloat." "Yesou exposed words" three times: "although this man has the grace of saving lives, but both gloating, it is not to save your life, it is greedy for you Lu Xun's "the end of qijieting's Essays: a record of the Soviet Union's Printmaking Exhibition": "these introducers are not people with so-called terrible political tendencies, but they will never gloat. Therefore, they are very happy to see the peaceful prosperity of their neighbors." Lao She's four generations in the same hall 48: "Rui Xuan's usual indifference to him made him gloat He knows that if Ruixuan dies, the Qi family will fall. " we should not gloat over the shortcomings and mistakes of our classmates.

Idioms and allusions

In the spring and Autumn period, the state of Jin suffered from famine and asked to buy grain from the state of Qin. The minister bailixi agreed to sell grain, and the state of Qin supported the state of Jin with a large amount of grain, so that the state of Jin went through the famine. In the winter of the next year, there was a famine in the state of Qin, and people sent to the state of Jin to ask for food. Jin people don't give it. Qingzheng said: "if you turn your back on your favor, you will have no relatives. Gloating is unkind. If you want to cherish something, it is ominous. If you make neighboring countries angry, it is unjust. These four kinds of morality have been lost. How can we defend our country? " Guo she said, "the skin no longer exists. Where is the hair attached?" Qingzheng said, "if you abandon your credit and your neighbor, who will help you when you are in trouble? If there is no credit, there will be adversity. If there is no rescue, it will be doomed. It's like that. " Guo she said: "even if we give food, our resentment will not be reduced. On the contrary, it will increase the enemy's strength. It's better not to give food." Qingzheng said: "it is the common people who despise to betray their favor and gloat over misfortune. People who are close to each other will become enemies, let alone enemies? " Jin Huigong didn't listen. Qing Zheng retreated and said, "the monarch will regret it!"