Chang 'an is expensive, but it's not easy to live in a big place. What do you mean?

"Chang 'an rice is expensive, but life in big cities is not easy" describes the high prices in big cities, which means that Gu Kuang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, played a joke in the name of Bai Juyi. Life in a big city is not easy to maintain.

Pronunciation: j dàbüy

Usage: As a predicate, it means that life is not easy.

Source: Zhang Gu's leisure from the Tang Dynasty advocated that "rice is expensive and easy to live."

Rice is expensive, so living in Beijing is not easy.

This idiom is related to Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi was very talented when he was a child and won the appreciation of people around him. In ancient times, talented people had two ways to become famous: one was to wait for the exam, that is, to finally become the top scholar by taking the exam after having obtained the township exam; The other is to meet celebrities or ministers at that time, and as long as they are recognized, they can also get the opportunity to recommend.

When Bai Juyi was sixteen, he moved from Jiangnan to Chang 'an, Kyoto, in order to take this job. As it was a custom for candidates to visit ministers and celebrities at that time, Bai Juyi also took his own poems to visit the famous Gu Kuang.

Gu Kuang saw the name "Bai Juyi" and jokingly said to Bai Juyi, "Chang 'an is expensive, so it is not easy to live. "Gu Kuang couldn't help cheering when he read the manuscript, saying," It's really hard to live in Chang 'an if you can write such a literary poem! "

From then on, Bai Juyi became famous in one fell swoop. Later, Bai Juyi wrote many very good and popular poems and became a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. And Gu Kuang's joke with him-"Chang 'an is expensive" has also been handed down, becoming a special idiom for later generations to describe the high prices in big cities.