make a pillow of one 's spear waiting for daybreak

make a pillow of one 's spear waiting for daybreak

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh à ng à D à ID à n. It means to use weapons as pillows to wait for the dawn. It refers to being vigilant and ready to fight, even when sleeping, and being ready to kill the enemy at any time. It comes from the biography of Liu Kun in the book of Jin.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] sleep in peace, sleep in peace

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Liu Kun in the book of Jin, it is said that "I have to wait for the emperor; I have to fight against the enemy; I often fear that my ancestors will lead me to whip."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial with commendatory meaning. example this heroic fleet, sleepy, guards the East China Sea outpost day and night. In the book of Jin, biography of Zhang daozhuan: "we can't understand the great shame of heaven and man, solve the overhanging of common people, forget the eclipse of the sun and wait for the day." In the biography of Zheng in the old book of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that he was the leader of the vassal yuan, the Minister of honor and general, and he waited for Dan every time when he was sleeping, and he often wept to forget his meal Ye Shaoweng of the Song Dynasty wrote the record of hearing and seeing in the four dynasties, Zhang Shihe's objection to the war: "before the land is returned, the garden and mausoleum are not cleared. It's time for us to be honest and ready to report our great shame." In Ming Feng Ji Xia Gong Ming Jiang written by Wang Shizhen of Ming Dynasty, "the worries of the night on the upper side and the confusion of Hua Rong on the lower side are the time for the honest officials to wait for the day." According to the biography of Wu Liang in the history of Ming Dynasty, "sleeping in the city tower at night, sleeping in the bed, training generals and training soldiers are often like kouzhi." Previously, I only knew that most of the generals were generals, and when they were "~", they would make parallel telegrams. This time, I realized that although they were civil servants, they also had a deep understanding of military strategy. Lu Xun's "quasi fengyuetan · Chong"

Idioms and allusions

Zuti and Liu Kun, who lived in the Western Jin Dynasty, were both cheerful and chivalrous. When they were young, they not only wrote well, but also enjoyed practicing martial arts and fitness, determined to serve the motherland. At that time, on the surface, the Jin Dynasty still governed the Central Plains, but in fact, it was a domestic and foreign crisis. When zuti and Liu Kun talked about the national situation, they were always very generous and often talked late into the night. One day, zuti and Liu Kun were very excited. Liu Kun didn't know when he fell asleep, but zuti couldn't fall asleep because of the excitement of the conversation. "Oh, oh, oh..." the rooster on the wasteland began to crow. Zuti jumped up and woke up Liu Kun: "listen, how exciting the rooster crows! Get up and practice sword So they started to fight on the high slope with their swords. From then on, they heard the first cry every morning, and they would come to the wasteland to practice their swords. Liu Kun was deeply moved by zuti's patriotic enthusiasm and determined to devote himself to the motherland. In a letter to his family, he wrote: "in times of national crisis, I often" sit back and wait for the dawn "(sleeping with weapons on my back), practice martial arts and fitness, and aspire to serve the country. I often worry that I will fall behind zuti, and I don't want him to rise in front of me!"