Building houses and roads

Building houses and roads

Building a house by the road, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ù sh è D à ob à ng, meaning to build a house by the road and discuss things with passers-by. It means too many people and too many mouths to do anything. It comes from Zizhitongjian, the seventh year of emperor Xiaowu of Jin Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

This so-called "building a house along the road" can be achieved at any time. Sima Guang's Zizhitongjian · the seventh year of emperor Xiaowu of Jin Dynasty

Idiom usage

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Idiom story

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhang of Han Dynasty wanted to order doctor Cao Bao to be responsible for the revision of rites and music, while Ban Gu advocated that all Confucian scholars in the capital should be called together to study and formulate rites and music. Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty thought that to let the Confucianists do it was equal to "giving up the way, but not in three years." After review, a total of 150 articles were adopted