Allusion or story of Guan and Tiger

In the Warring States period, attacking and attacking each other, in order to make everyone can really abide by the promise, the countries usually give the crown prince to each other as a hostage." The warring states policy": "Wei policy" has such a paragraph records: Wei minister pang Gong, will accompany Wei Prince to Zhao as a hostage, before leaving the king of Wei, said: "Now there is a person to say that the market appeared on the tiger, the king believe it?"　The king of Wei said, "I don't believe it."　Pang Gong said, "If there is a second person who says that a tiger has appeared in the market, does the king believe it?"　The King of Wei said, "I am somewhat skeptical."　Pang Gong added, "If a third person says that a tiger has appeared in the market, does the king believe it?"　The King of Wei said, "Of course I will believe it."　Pang Gong then said, "It is obvious that there will not be a tiger in the market, but after three people said it, it seems that there really is a tiger. Now Handan, the capital of Zhao, is much farther away from Daliang, the capital of Wei, than the market here, and there are more than three people talking about me. I hope the great king will be clear about this."　The King of Wei said, "I know everything myself."　Pang Gong accompanied the crown prince back to his country, and the king of Wei really did not summon him again.　The marketplace was a place where the population was concentrated, so of course there would be no tigers. To say that there was a tiger in the marketplace was obviously a rumor and a deception, but many people who said so tended to believe it if they did not look at things from the truth.　This story was originally a satire on King Hui of Wei's ignorance, but later people derived this story into the idiom of "Three People Become a Tiger", which is a metaphor for the fact that sometimes rumors can cover up the truth. For example, to judge the truth of a matter, one must carefully examine and think about it, rather than listen to hearsay. Otherwise, "three people make a tiger", and sometimes rumors can be mistaken for the truth.

To help a tiger:

Once upon a time, in a cave in a certain place, there lived a ferocious tiger. One day, it felt very sad because it had no food to fill its hunger. So it went out of the cave and hunted for food in the nearby mountains. At that moment, the tiger saw a man walking shabbily not far from the mountainside, so it pounced on him, bit the man to death, and ate all his flesh. But the tiger was not yet satisfied; it seized the man's ghost and would not let it go until it found another man for it to enjoy, or else it would not let the man's ghost go free. The ghost of the man caught by the tiger actually agreed. So, he acted as a guide for the tiger, and after searching and searching, he finally came across the second person.　At that time, the ghost helped the tiger to commit murder in order to be freed soon. First, he went over to confuse the new person, and then he untied the man's belt and took off his clothes, so that the tiger could eat him more easily. This ghost, who helped the tiger to eat people, was called the ghost of the tiger. According to this legend, the later generation called the ghost who helped the bad guys to do harm to the heaven and the earth as "helping the tiger to do evil". Source: Zheng Zitong (正字通-听雨记谈)

狐假虎威：

Chu Xuanwang asked his ministers, "I heard that all the vassals in the central plains are afraid of Chu Lingyin Zhaoxi恤, but is it really so?" None of the ministers answered. Jiang Yi replied, "Tigers catch all kinds of beasts to eat. When he caught a fox, the fox said to the tiger, 'You don't dare to eat me; heaven has sent me to be the leader of the beasts, and if you eat me, you will be disobeying the order of heaven. If you don't believe me, I will walk in front of you, and you will follow me, and let's see which one of the beasts dares not to run away when they see me! The tiger believed it and walked with the fox. When the beasts saw the tiger, they all fled. The tiger did not understand that the beasts fled because they were afraid of him, but thought they were afraid of the fox. The tiger did not realize that the beasts were afraid of him, but thought that they were afraid of the fox. Therefore, the reason why the people in the north fear Zhao Xi Shi is because the king's military power is in his hands, which means that it is actually the king's army that they fear! Just as the hundred beasts fear the tiger."

The Storming Tiger Fenghe:

On one occasion, Zi Lu asked, "Master, if you were in command of the three armies, who would you like to have with you?" Confucius said, "I don't like people who like to fight tigers with empty hands, cross rivers on foot (暴虎冯河), and think they are brave and not afraid of death. I want people who are good at thinking calmly when things go wrong and who strive for success by all means."　Later Zi Lu became an official in the state of Wei. In 480 B.C., there was a civil unrest in the state of Wei, and many people died. Confucius knew about it and said, "Hey, Zi Lu is in trouble this time!" Sure enough, Zi Lu ran back to the capital alone and firmly demanded that those who had caused the rebellion be punished, and he was killed.

Nine Bulls and Two Tigers:

During the Zhou Dynasty, King Xuan of Zhou heard that Gong Yi Bo's bravery was very famous among the vassals, so he sent someone to ask him how much bravery he had, and Gong Yi Bo replied that he could break the legs of a stupid worm and resist the flapping of the wings of a robin in autumn. King Xuan of Zhou was greatly disappointed and said he could drag the tail of a nine-headed ox without letting it move.