The meaning of the praying mantis catching the cicada yellow sparrow

After the mantis catches the cicada and the yellow sparrow is behind, this idiom satirizes those who only care about the immediate interests and ignore the disasters behind, and warn such people who are short-sighted, blind and ignorant of the future troubles. It also means that some people want to plot against others, but did not expect that someone is plotting against their own people. Let's take a look at the idiom that roaches catch cicadas and yellow finches.

The original text of the mantis catching the cicada yellow sparrow

The king of Wu wanted to cut down the bauhinia, so he told him that he would die if he dared to remonstrate. If he dared not remonstrate if he had a few children, he would play the ball, swim in the back garden, and show his clothes, such as San Dan. King Wu said, "when you come, why do you bother to dress like this?" He said, "there are trees in the garden, on which there are cicadas, and cicadas live high in mourning and drinking dew. I do not know that the mantis is behind, and the mantis is attached to the body and wants to take the cicada, but I do not know that the yellow sparrow is beside it, and the yellow sparrow stretches its neck and wants to peck the mantis, but it does not know that the bullet is under it. All three want to get their former benefits, regardless of the subsequent troubles. " King Wu said, "how good!" He is not a soldier.

Translation of mantis after catching cicadas and yellow finches

King Wu wanted to crush the State of Chu and told the left and right ministers, "I will kill all those who dare to advise me to send troops!" A young man in King Wu's servant tried to remonstrate King Wu but dared not, so he wandered around the backyard with a bullet in his arms and a slingshot in his hand, and the dew soaked his clothes for a few days. King Wu said, "Why do you have to wet your clothes so hard?" The young man replied, "there is a tree in the garden, on which there is a cicada. the cicada is high, screaming and sucking dew, but it does not know that the mantis is behind him. The mantis bends its body and clings to its forelegs to pick the cicada." but the yellow sparrow stretched its neck to peck the mantis, but did not know that the slingshot and projectile were under him. All three must want to get immediate benefits. Without considering the hidden dangers behind. " King Wu said, "good!" So King Wu stopped the war.

The provenance of the yellow sparrow after catching cicada by mantis

1. "there are trees in the garden, on which there are cicadas. Cicadas live high in mourning and drinking dew, but I do not know that the mantis is behind it." The mantis committee is attached to the body and wants to take the cicada regardless of knowing that the yellow sparrow is near it! The yellow Finch stretches its neck to peck the roach without knowing that the pellets are under it! All three want to gain their former benefits, regardless of their subsequent troubles. "

2. "Shuo Yuan Zheng remonstrance": "when you see a cicada, you can get the beautiful shade and forget its body. The mantis holds the nebula and fights for it. When you see it and forget its shape, the strange sparrow benefits it, sees the benefit and forgets its truth."

3. "the 20th Mountain Tree of Zhuangzi in the warring States period" saw a cicada, got the beautiful shade and forgot its body, the mantis held the nebula and fought for it, saw it and forgot its shape, thus benefiting the magpie, seeing the benefit and forgetting its truth. "

4. "Qing Ji Yun read Weicaotang Notebook IV Huaixi Magazine XIV": "in the next few years, I heard that a Taoist priest was struck by lightning in Shandong Province, or that this Taoist priest was obscene and overkill. 'The mantis catches the cicada, the yellow sparrow is behind, 'and the bomber, after that, is said. "

5. Han Shi Weizhuan: "the mantis wants to eat the cicada, but he does not know that the yellow sparrow is behind, raising his neck to peck and eat it."