Fish in the water

Fish in the water

Yu you hao Shang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ú y ó uh á OSH à ng, which means to indulge in mountains and rivers and roam freely. It comes from "Wai Pian Qiushui", Volume 6 of Zhuangzi Ji Shi.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu autumn water: "Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu swim on the Haoliang river. Chuang Tzu said," it's a pleasure for fish to travel leisurely. " Huizi said, "I'm not a fish. Do you know the happiness of fish?" Chuang Tzu said, "I'm not myself. Do you know that I don't know the pleasure of fish?" Huizi said, "if I am not a son, I don't know the son. If I am not a fish, I don't know the joy of the fish."

Idiom usage

Example song Huang Tingjian's Elegy of Li Haozhou: "the fish swim above the Hao, and the Yu suddenly accuses the murderer." Tang Jiadao's poem "send Linghu to Xianggong" says: "not without haoshangsi, only eating vegetables in the garden." Song Sushi's twelve Qin Inscriptions: autumn wind: "sorrow is not in Xiangbin, music is not in Haoshang."

Idioms and allusions

original text

Zhuangzi and Huizi swim on Haoliang. Chuang Tzu said, "it's a pleasure for fish to travel leisurely." Huizi said, "Zi is not a fish. Do you know the happiness of fish?" Chuang Tzu said, "I'm not myself. I don't know the pleasure of fish." Huizi said, "if I am not a son, I don't know the son; if I am not a fish, I don't know the joy of the fish." Chuang Tzu said, "please follow the origin. Confucius said, "you know the fish's happiness in your safety." if you know what I know, you ask me, and I know it's Haoshang. "

translation

Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu play together on the bridge of haoshui. Chuang Tzu said, "how leisurely the white mullet is, that's the happiness of the fish." Huizi said: "you are not a fish, how do you know the happiness of fish?" Chuang Tzu said, "if you are not me, how can you know that I don't know the happiness of fish?" Huizi said, "I'm not you, of course I don't know you; you're not a fish, and you can be absolutely sure that you don't know fish's happiness." Chuang Tzu said, "let's follow the previous words. What you said just now, "how do you know the happiness of fish?" is that you already know that I know the happiness of fish and ask me, while I know the happiness of fish on the haoshui bridge. "