cruelly oppress and exploit the common people

cruelly oppress and exploit the common people

Fish and meat people, Chinese words, Pinyin is y ú R ò UB ǎ IX ì ng, after metaphor with violence bullying, arbitrary harm innocent people. It comes from the biography of Zhong Changtong in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

&In the book of later Han Dynasty, biography of Zhong Changtong: "so he was arrogant and unrestrained. He was willing to eat the common people to satisfy their desires."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object; used in writing. example the troops led by him are not trained at all. They did not intend to fight, so they can not fight. They are just tools for searching places. Feng Yuxiang's my life Chapter 22

Analysis of Idioms

Fish and meat Village

Idiom story

It is said that the emperor Jiuding, Apart from the emperor of Zhou, other officials could use seven tripods and six tripods at most - they were princes, so they could not eat fresh fish and fresh wax; the next officials used five tripods and four tripods, the first prosperous mutton, as well as pigs, fish, wax, intestines and stomach, and so on; the next officials could only use three tripods and two tripods, and they could only eat pork, bacon and fish; corporal It's even worse. You can only use one tripod and one tripod. You can only eat pork, and you can't eat any more. In this way, the common people can only eat fish or use fish to worship their ancestors. Therefore, the common people are also known as "fish and meat people". This is also the rule of Zhou government, which is called "lieding system".