readily solved

readily solved

It's a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y í NgR è n é rji ě, which means that when you chop bamboo, the upper part of your head will crack, and the lower part will crack itself along the edge of the knife. It's a good way to deal with things and solve problems. From the book of Jin, biography of Du Yu.

The origin of Idioms

"Jin Shu · Du Yu Zhuan" said: "today's military power has been shaken, such as broken bamboo, after a few stanzas, it can be easily solved."

Idiom usage

Wang Mao of Song Dynasty's Han Xin Zhi Xing: later, he used it to pick up the Yan and pull it out of the Qi. Pu Songling's strange tales from a lonely studio, Volume 2, Lu's judgment in Qing Dynasty. Chapter 54 of Li Baojia's Officialdom: as long as the priest is present, no matter how difficult things are, they will be solved.

Idioms and allusions

In 280 A.D., Du Yu, the great general of Zhennan in the Western Jin Dynasty, proposed to Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, to attack the eastern Wu Dynasty. He dispatched his troops to occupy a large area of the Yangtze River Basin in 10 days. At that time, it was suggested that the troops should be withdrawn to fight again next spring. Du Yu thought that if he wanted to take advantage of the victory, he would be able to solve the problem by sending troops when the morale was high, and soon he occupied Soochow at one stroke.