What are 50 philosophical idiom stories?

50 Philosophical Idioms are as follows:

The whip is too long, the gentleman on the beam, the water dripping on the stone, the star fire starting a prairie fire, too late, the bow of a cup and the shadow of a snake, joy in the extreme gives rise to sadness, catching the thieves first catches the king, the sky is turned upside down, the city gates lose fire and bring calamity to the fish in the pool, the painting of snakes is added to the feet, the painting of a dragon is the eyeballs, half the effort is twice as much as half the work, the once in a lifetime, the uprooting of seedlings is helpful to the growth of the child, and the getting by with what you have done is not good enough, to get carried away.

To a lute, foxes and tigers, traffic, halfway, concentration, laughter. Double-pronged, lifelike, chesty, practice makes perfect, water dripping over a stone, a hundred shots, priceless, eight immortals crossing the sea, cranes standing on top of chickens, quarterbacking, and one-shot. A thousand miles a day, the right medicine.

The wind blows, the wind and the rain together, the brambles, the willingness to worship, the appearance of a man, self-contradiction, the cover-up, the dragnet, waiting for rabbits, hitting the grass to frighten snakes, the yellow sorghum dream, the chicken and the dog, the arrogance of the army, the inability to do anything about it.

1, the whip is too long: during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhuang of Chu, relying on the power of the powerful sent a doctor Shen Zhou to Qi via Song, Song killed Shen Zhou. King Zhuang of Chu sent troops to attack Song. When Song asked Jin for help, Bo Zong, a great physician, advised Duke Jing of Jin not to send troops, saying that there was no reason to offend Chu for the sake of Song. Philosophy: A lot of things are not possible just because you are capable of doing them; there are very many things that are beyond your ability.

2, the gentleman on the beam: the Eastern Han Lingdi small official Chen kind-hearted, one night a thief slipped into his house to hide in the beam, he found and did not order the arrest, but the son, grandson called to the side, to give them how to behave, do not learn the gentleman on the beam. The thief was y moved and begged for mercy. Philosophy: It is a metaphor for a thief, and now sometimes refers to a person who is detached from reality and the masses.

3, water drops penetrate the stone: "Han Shu - Mei multiply biography": "Taishan's through the stone, a single pole of the rope broken dry. The water is not the stone of the drill, the rope is not the saw of the wood, gradual and extravagant to make it so." Metaphorically speaking, as long as you have perseverance and keep working hard, you will surely succeed in your endeavors. Philosophy: Water keeps dripping downward, and in time it can drip through the stone. Philosophy: As long as you are persistent, you can do very difficult things with subtle efforts.

4, star fire prairie blaze: Ming Zhang Juzheng "Zhang Wenzhong collection - reply to the Yunnan governor nuclear Layshan on razing": "the study of recent years, are not talented in the martial arts, greed and redemption of the Department of Justice and the four sides without the traitor scurried into which the excitement of the structure of the fan, the stars of the fire, and then into a prairie blaze." Now is a metaphor for revolutionary forces or new things initially although small or still in the bud, but has a vigorous vitality and broad prospects for development.

5. Too Little Too Late: Confucius' student Zigong asked Confucius which of his classmates, Zi Zhang or Zixia, was more virtuous. Confucius said that Zi Zhang often exceeded the requirements of the Zhou rites, while Zixia often failed to meet them. Zigong then asked if it was better for Zi Zhang to go beyond, to which Confucius replied that going beyond and failing to do so had the same effect. Philosophy: To do too much is as inappropriate as not doing enough.

6. The shadow of a bow and the shadow of a snake: Le Guang's friend took the shadow of a bow as a snake, and fell ill as a result, which shows that consciousness has a counter effect on objective things, and a distorted reflection of the objective reality will bring negative effects to the objective things. It reveals that we must pay attention to the role of consciousness, pay attention to the power of the spirit, consciously set up the correct ideology and overcome the wrong ideology.

7, joy and sadness: joy and sadness, under certain conditions to its opposite transformation. Joy over the points, it will invite sadness. It reveals that, in order to realize the transformation from disadvantage to advantage, from failure to victory, from negativity to positivity and so on, we must be good at analyzing the reasons leading to failure, disadvantage, mistakes and setbacks, learn the lessons, and correct them in practice.

8, capture the thief first: to eliminate the enemy cavalry first to eliminate the crotch of the horse, to defeat the enemy army first to capture the enemy's leader. When we look at the problem and do things, we should be good at grasping the main contradictions and concentrate on solving them. If we do not distinguish between the main and secondary, or can not grasp the center, it is impossible to get things done. Catching the thief first is a concrete manifestation of grasping the main contradictions, is the key to victory over the enemy.

9, the sky turned upside down: Cai Wenji to the Xiongnu, everything has changed dramatically, as if heaven and earth are upside down, even the Big Dipper to the south. This story shows that things are changing and developing. It reveals that we can't look at people and things with unchanging eyes. In order to recognize things correctly and to divide and conquer problems, we must observe and deal with them from a developmental point of view.

10, a fire at the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the pond: because of the fire at the city gates, resulting in the fish that did not escape suffered, indicating that things are interconnected, if you cut off the link will be punished. This requires us to insist on the viewpoint of connection.

Introduction of Idioms

Idioms are a major feature of traditional Chinese culture, which have a fixed structural form and a fixed way of saying things, denote certain meanings, and are applied as a whole in a statement, assuming the components of subject, object and determiner. A large part of idioms are inherited from ancient times, it represents a story or allusion.