What is the meaning of Ye Gong's love for dragons?

Be honest, be consistent on the inside and outside, don’t blindly pursue or worship some things, don’t look at things superficially, look deep into the essence.

Idiom story:

Ye Gong liked dragons so much that his clothes and wine vessels were engraved with dragons, and the carvings and decorations in his room were also made with dragons. He loved dragons so much, and when the real dragon in the sky knew about it, he dropped from the sky to Mr. Ye's house. The dragon's head was put on the window sill to visit, and the dragon's tail was extended into the hall. As soon as Ye Gong saw that it was a real dragon, he turned around and ran away. He was so frightened that he seemed to have lost his soul. He was so frightened that he couldn't control himself. From this point of view, Ye Gong does not really like dragons, he just likes things that look like dragons but not dragons.

The meaning of the idiom:

This story uses a very vivid metaphor to satirize the character of Ye Fuxuan, and profoundly exposes the bad ideas of only singing high-profile and not being practical. Bad style. Through this story, we should abandon the bad ideas and bad styles of "theory is divorced from reality" and establish the good ideas and styles of seeking truth from facts. At the same time, it also satirizes people who are not worthy of their name and appear different from their appearance.

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Analysis on Ye Gong’s love for dragons:

Ye Gong in history was not such a person. Ye Gong's most famous achievement is that he did not repay kindness with evil, and decisively led his troops to put down the rebellion of Bai Gong Sheng, thereby stabilizing the Chu state's regime. Later, for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of Chu State, he gave up his position to others. This act of giving up talents was praised by experts as not being obsessed with power and having a profound understanding of righteousness. Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang, whose courtesy name was Zigao, was named Ye Yiyin by King Zhao of Chu and his surname was changed to Ye. Ye Gong was born into a royal family of the King of Chu, and his great-grandfather was King Zhuang of Chu, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. After the Qin State sent troops to repel the Wu army, King Zhao Zhao of Chu sealed Shen Zhuliang as Yin in Ye Yi, an important town in the northern border of Chu State "outside Fangcheng". Shen Zhuliang was respected by the court and the public of Chu and the princes in the surrounding areas. He was 24 years old at the time.

According to archaeological excavations, during the period when he presided over Ye Zheng, he adopted the strategy of raising troops and calming the people, developing agriculture, and enhancing national strength. He organized the people to build the earliest existing water conservancy project in China, which enabled hundreds of thousands of acres of local farmland to be restored. Irrigation is more than 200 years earlier than the Dujiangyan built by the famous Shu governor Li Bing, and more than 300 years earlier than the Zhengguo Canal. So far, the Dongpi and Xipi sites built by Ye Gong are still well preserved, which are historical witnesses of Ye Gong's flood control.

Historical expert Dr. An Guolou said that Ye Gong did have a hobby of painting dragons, but dragons are deified animals and cannot descend into Ye's house. "Ye Gong loves dragons" reflects the location of Ye Gong and the dragons of his era. The rich connotation of culture. Experts also pointed out that this fable described by Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty reflects the disparagement of other schools of thought such as Chu Daozhifeng after Confucianism became dominant in the Han Dynasty. According to the regulations of "Zhou Rites", after Ye Gong's death, a temple was erected to offer sacrifices. In order to commemorate the virtues of their ancestors and the place where they lived, some of the descendants of Ye Gong changed the name to Ye, which is the origin of the surname Ye. Therefore, Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang is also the recognized ancestor of the Chinese people with the surname Ye in the world.