beat the swords into ploughshares

beat the swords into ploughshares

Casting a sword for a plow is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is zh ù Ji à NW é IL í, which means selling and melting weapons to make farming utensils. It comes from "Confucius family language - zhisi".

The origin of Idioms

"Zhisi, Confucius' family language," says: "I cast swords, learn to use them as agricultural utensils, and herd cattle and horses in the original place. I have no thought of leaving the family, and I have no trouble fighting for a thousand years."

Idiom story

In December 1952, to celebrate the world people's peace conference held in Vienna, Picasso, a Spanish painter, presented a new work, a dove of peace. It gives us a new symbol and shows that the struggle for peace of people all over the world has reached a higher stage. This is Picasso's third painting of a dove of peace. The first is in April 1949, when the first world peace support conference was held, he painted a quiet dove, showing the simple and dignified will of the peace loving people. The second is in September 1950. He painted a pigeon dedicated to the Second World Conference for the defense of peace. This is the dove flying all over the world. Instead of stopping there quietly, it is flying. When the world people's peace conference was held again in December 1952, Picasso presented his third dove of peace. in order to commemorate the first world peace conference, the sculptor of the Soviet Union, Eugene victorovich fucegic, created a bronze statue of "casting a sword into a plow". The young man in the sculpture holds a hammer in one hand and a sword to be cast into a plow in the other hand, which symbolizes that human beings demand the elimination of war and turn the weapon of destroying human beings into a tool of creation in order to create happiness human beings. This bronze statue was presented to the United Nations by the then Soviet government in 1959 as a permanent memorial. It is still placed in the garden of the United Nations. It decorates the square garden in front of the United Nations building with sculptures presented to the United Nations by other countries. This sculpture is based on the Bible, Old Testament, Isaiah 2:4: " " "they will fight their swords into plowshares, and their guns into sickles; " and they will be at their swords in going down hills, and their swords in running hooks: "this country will not attack that country, and they will no longer learn to fight." "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neithershall the style of war any more." in addition, there is a Chinese idiom "casting sword for plough" to sell melting weapons to make farming utensils. You can refer to "Confucius family language - zhisi" (pseudograph not yet determined): "cast swords, learn to use them as agricultural tools, herd cattle and horses in the original place, and have no thoughts of leaving home, and have no danger of fighting for a thousand years." His significance is to warn all mankind not to bring war again, and to protect peace is the real thing that should be done. For people at that time, this idea is always there. And expressed it with it.