Calling a deer a horse-deliberate misinterpretation

After the death of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Gao and Li Si were under dictatorship. In order to keep their power, they forged an imperial edict to make Fu Su, the eldest son of Qin Shihuang, who should have inherited the throne, commit suicide, and controlled Hu Hai, the second son of Qin Wang, to become Qin Ershi. Zhao Gao became the prime minister of higher vocational education. Zhao Gao, who is under one person and over ten thousand people, is not satisfied, and plans to usurp the throne day and night. However, he doesn't know how many ministers in North Korea can listen to him and how many people oppose him. So he thought of a way to test his prestige, and at the same time he could find out how many people dared to oppose him and who they were.

One day, in court, Zhao Gao had a deer brought to him and said to Qin Ershi with a big smile, "Your Majesty, I gave you a good horse. Qin Ershi looked at it and thought: This is not a horse, this is obviously a deer! He smiled and said to Zhao Gao that the Prime Minister had made a mistake. There is a deer here. How can you say it's a horse? Zhao Gao deadpan, heart firmly said: Please see clearly, this is indeed a swift horse. Qin Ershi looked at the deer again and said incredulously, How can a horse have horns on its head? Zhao Gao turned and pointed to the ministers and said loudly, Your Majesty, if you don't believe me, you can ask the ministers.

Ministers were all at a loss by Zhao Gao's nonsense, and whispered privately: What is this Zhao Gao doing? It's obviously a deer or a horse! Ministers see Zhao Gao sinister smile on his face, eyes staring at you in turn, suddenly understand Zhao Gao's intention.

Some timid people with a sense of justice dare not speak with their heads down, because they are sorry for their conscience by telling lies and are afraid of being framed by Zhao Gao in the future. Some honest people insist that this is a deer rather than a horse. There are also some adulterers who usually follow Zhao Gao closely and immediately support Zhao Gao's statement and say to the emperor, "This is indeed a swift horse!" !

Therefore, Zhao Gao punished those honest ministers who did not obey him by various means, and even copied them. Since then, the idiom "refer to a deer as a horse" has been left.

Explanation of referring to a deer as a horse: refer to a deer and say it is a horse. Metaphor deliberately turns black and white and confuses right and wrong.

From: Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor: Zhao Gao wanted to be chaotic, but he was afraid that the minister would not listen. He first set a good example and offered a deer for two. Ma ye. ? II smiled and said:? Is the Prime Minister wrong? Call a deer a horse. ? Left ask right ask, left ask right ask, or silence, or say Ma Yishun Zhao Gao.

For example: Dongchuang has got a good husband, why not exchange sheep for cattle? The western neighbors are hard to blame.

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Grammar: part-time style; As predicate, object and attribute; With a derogatory connotation.

The sentence referring to a deer as a horse is 1, and people all over the world relish that he refers to a deer as a horse.

2. It was clearly a lion, but it was labeled as a donkey. Doesn't this mean that deer are horses?

Bad people often call deer horses, which is really wrong.

We must seek truth from facts when we do things. We should not fully understand the people and things that refer to deer as horses, but should echo and flatter them.

He is a big official, so he should distinguish right from wrong. If you deliberately refer to a deer as a horse and confuse people, it will eventually be boring.

6. Be rigorous and meticulous about science. If we don't pretend to understand, we may play a joke on calling a deer a horse.

7. The story that a deer is a horse has spread to this day, and people use it to describe a person's right or wrong, turning black and white.

8. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Prime Minister Zhao Gao plotted to usurp the throne. In order to exclude dissidents, he came up with a trick of calling a deer a horse. In this way, we can not only play with Emperor Qin Ershi, but also identify those ministers who are powerful and dare to tell the truth, so as to get rid of them, which shows the deep poison of their intentions.

9. Although what you said does not mean that a deer is a horse, it is also a sheep of a cow.

10, he knows nothing about machinery, doesn't he mean a deer is a horse?