a fellow who pursues rancidness

a fellow who pursues rancidness

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is zh ú ch ò UZH ī f ū, which means the person who pursues the strange smell. It refers to a person who has a strange hobby and is different from others. It comes from Lu Shi Chun Qiu Yu He.

Idiom explanation

The man who chases the stinky. It refers to a person who has a strange hobby and is different from others.

Idiom usage

It's a strange person. Example Ji Yun's notes on Yuewei thatched cottage - luanyang Xiaoxia Lu 6 in Qing Dynasty: "there are ~, you are."

The origin of Idioms

"Lu's spring and Autumn Annals · Yuhe" says: "if a person has a bad smell, his relatives, brothers, wives and concubines are incompetent in knowledge, and they live on the sea through self suffering. Some people on the sea say that it stinks, and day and night go with it. " Later, he used the term "the man who chases the stink" to refer to the person who likes to be eccentric. In the book with Yang dezu written by Cao Zhi of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms period, it is said that "each person has his own good taste. The fragrance of LAN pengsun and Hui is well liked by all people, while there is a bad husband by the sea." Song Zhoufei's Qingbo magazine Volume 12: "people in Binjiang get fish, leave a few days, and cook only after a little failure. Or why not strike fresh, cloud fresh will be fishy. There are bad men on the sea, so I believe in them. " The first chapter of the strange situation witnessed in the past 20 years: "there are also those inferior people who are eager to taste the same thing." It is also called "the man who chases stinks". The poem "similarities and differences" written by Mei Yaochen of Song Dynasty: "holding native people by the river, chasing smelly men by the sea." Zhao Yi's poem leisure in Qing Dynasty: "in front of us, we cherish our little friends, but we let them chase us out on the sea." Huang Zunxian of the Qing Dynasty wrote the poem "inviting villagers to drink on a spring night": "don't get rid of the smelly husband, and please yourself when you are used to dyeing."

Idioms and allusions

original text

"Lu's spring and Autumn Annals · Yuhe" says: "if a person has a bad smell, his relatives, brothers, wives and concubines have knowledge, they are unable to live with the residents, and they live on the sea through self suffering. Some people at sea say that those who stink can go day and night

translation

There was a man who smelled so much that his relatives, brothers, wives and acquaintances did not want to live and associate with him. He was very distressed and moved away from his relatives and friends to live on the seashore. There is a man on the seashore who likes his bad smell very much. He follows him day and night and is reluctant to leave.