a butt for future ridicule

a butt for future ridicule

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y í Xi à oh à ur é n, which means to make future generations laugh because of its absurdity. It comes from Wu Mingshi's new Pinghua on the history of the Five Dynasties and the history of the Zhou Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the volume of Wu Mingshi's new Pinghua of the Five Dynasties, history of the Zhou Dynasty, Liu Jun tolerated humiliation and followed Shi Jingtang's former wisdom. Why don't you laugh at your descendants? "

Idiom explanation

Yi: stay; posterity: posterity. Because of its absurdity, it makes posterity laugh and leaves a story for posterity.