Classic idiom stories (selected 5)

#children's story# Introduction Idiom stories are part of Chinese history. Idioms are the accumulation of history. Behind every idiom there is a story with far-reaching meaning. Below are some classic idiom stories compiled and shared. You are welcome to read and learn from them. I hope it will be helpful to you!

1. Classic idiom story: Sun Shan lost his name

In the Song Dynasty of our country, there was a talented man named Sun Shan. He was not only humorous, but also good at telling jokes, so people nearby People gave him the nickname "Funny Talent".

On one occasion, he went to the capital with the son of a fellow villager to take an examination for the civil service.

When the list was released, although Sun Shan's name was listed at the bottom of the list, he was still on the list, but the son of the fellow countryman who went with him was not. Didn't pass the exam.

Soon after Sun Shan returned home, his fellow villagers came to ask if his son had passed the exam. Mori Shan was embarrassed to speak directly and couldn't hide it, so he casually read out two lines of poetry: "Sun Shan is the one who understands the Yuan Dynasty, and the virtuous man is outside Sun Shan."

Jieyuan is the first place in the examination system stipulated in our country's imperial examination system. The so-called "Jie Yuan" in Sun Shan's poem generally refers to the general examination of candidates. The whole meaning of his poem is: "The last one on the list of candidates is me, Sun Shan, but the son's name is still behind me."

From then on, people based on this According to the story, applying to a school or taking various exams but not being admitted is called "losing one's reputation".

　

2. Classic idiom story: Ends of the World

Han Yu, also known as Tuizhi, was a great writer in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

His father died when he was two years old, and his mother died soon after. When he was young, he relied on his brother Han Hui and his sister-in-law Mrs. Zheng to survive. Han Yu will have an heir (the son of Yu Ci's brother, heir to his eldest brother Hui) named Laocheng, who is the twelfth, so his nickname is Twelve Lang. Han Yu is younger than Han Yu. Later, when Han Hui was forty-two years old, he was demoted to the governor of Shaozhou due to the incident of Prime Minister Yuan Zai. He died of illness in Shaozhou within a few months. At this time, Han Yu was only eleven years old, and Twelve Lang was also very young. Although Han Yu had three older brothers (Hui, Bian, and Jie), they all passed away early. At this time, the only people who inherited the descendants of their ancestors were Han Yu and his nephew Twelve Lang. They were lonely and had not left for a day.

Han Yu traveled from Yicheng to the capital when he was nineteen years old. In the next ten years, he only met Twelve Lang three times. Just when he was planning to return to the west and live with Twelve Lang forever, unfortunately Twelve Lang died at this time. When Han Yu heard the news, he was heartbroken and wrote an "Essence of Sacrifice to the Twelve Langs", asking Jianzhong to prepare some current items and go all the way to commemorate him. This memorial article is filled with tears every word, making it sad to read.

There is a sentence in the memorial text: "One is at the end of the sky, and the other is at the corner of the earth." Later generations extended it into the sentence "The ends of the earth and the ends of the earth", which is used to describe extremely distant places.

　

3. Classic Idiom Story: Three Lives of Fortune

There was a monk in the Tang Dynasty, named Guoze, who had profound attainments in Buddhism, and his My friend Li Yuanshan was very close. One day, the two of them were traveling together. When they passed by a place, they saw a woman fetching water by the river. The woman had a big belly and was pregnant. Yuanze pointed at the woman and said to Li Yuanshan: "This woman has been pregnant for three years. She is waiting for me to be reincarnated as her son, but I have been avoiding her. Now that I see her, there is no way to avoid her. Three days later, This woman has given birth. Please come to her house by then. If the baby smiles at you, it will be me. Just wait until the thirteenth year, the Mid-Autumn Festival. On a moonlit night, I'll wait for you at Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou. Let's meet again then." After they parted, Yuantan died on that night, and the pregnant woman also gave birth to a boy. On the third day, Li Yuanshan took care of Yuanze and went to the woman's house to visit. The baby actually smiled at the ground.

On the moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival after the thirteenth year, Li Yuanshan arrived at Tianzhu Temple as scheduled for a visit. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the temple, he saw a shepherd boy sitting on the back of a cow, watching and singing, and said: "The soul of old love is on the Sansheng Stone." , Don’t talk about admiring the moon and singing in the wind, I feel ashamed that my lover is visiting me from afar, even though I am of the opposite sex.”

Nowadays, most people usually use it as a metaphor for having a special fate.

Or if friends meet by chance or in special circumstances, become close friends, and can help themselves, they will be praised as "three lives of good fortune".

　

4. Classic idiom story: Nothing can be achieved

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man who became a provincial official. Because his official career was not very prosperous, he could not do anything. Nothing is always what he wants, so he goes out from time to time to relax and unwind. One day, he arrived at Jingguo Temple. Tired of traveling, he stayed in the temple. He had a dream at night. In his dream, he walked under a rock and met an old monk. In front of the old monk, there was a very small incense burner, and sandalwood incense curled up from the burner. The old monk said to the provincial official: "The cigarettes in this small incense burner are still preserved when you made a wish. Now you have been a human being for three generations. In your first life, you were the pacifying inspector of Jiannan in the Tang Xuanzong era; in your second life, you were The secretary of Xishu during the reign of Emperor Xianzong, the third generation is now the provincial official." After hearing the old monk's words, he suddenly felt a little enlightened, as if he remembered that all the officials he held in the third generation were mediocre and accomplished.

As a result, I no longer wanted to float in the officialdom, and I seemed to have a clear understanding of life.

In addition to Wang Zhong’s poems, there is also the exclamation “Undecided about what to do in the war, nothing will be achieved”.

Nowadays, older people usually lament that they have achieved nothing if they have no success in their career. Sometimes if you ask a young person how he is doing in his career, he will say "nothing has been accomplished"!

　

5. Classic idiom story: What goes up has deeds

In the Spring and Autumn Period, since Prime Minister Yan Ying died, no one had ever criticized Duke Jinggong of Qi for his faults in person. So I felt very depressed.

One day, Qi Jinggong had a banquet with civil and military officials. After the banquet was over, they went to the square to shoot arrows for fun. Whenever Qi Jinggong shoots an arrow, even if it misses the center of the arrow, all the civil and military officials will cheer loudly: "Great!

Wonderful!" ."

Afterwards, Qi Jinggong told his minister Xianzhang about the matter. Xianzhang said to Jinggong: "The ministers cannot be entirely blamed for this matter. There is an ancient saying: "What goes up will lead to results." "What the king likes to eat, the officials will also like to eat; what the king likes to wear, the officials will also like to wear; the king likes to be flattered, and naturally, the officials will often flatter the king."

< p> After hearing what Xian Zhang said, Jinggong thought that Xian Zhang's words were very reasonable, so he sent his attendants to reward Xian Zhang with many precious things. Xian Zhang looked at it and shook his head, saying: "Those who flatter the king do it just to get more rewards. If I accept these rewards, wouldn't I become a despicable villain too! "He said nothing about accepting these precious things.

Later generations used the phrase "advanced actions and imitative actions" to describe how the people at the top liked to do things, and the people at the bottom would follow suit. Don’t we see more people and things like this in our real society? For example, the host of a company often goes out to eat, drink and have fun and ignores business, and his subordinates also follow suit. This is "what goes up and what follows". The approximate meaning of this idiom is negative, so it must describe something bad.