The origin and allusion meaning of Cai Gao Badou

才高八斗 Note: (cái gāo bā dǒu) Interpretation: Cai: 文才, talent. The metaphor is extremely talented.

Source: **In the Southern Dynasty, Song, no name, "Shi Chang Tan, Eight Bucket Talents", there are many articles, and they are called Eight Bucket Talents. Xie Lingyun tasted and said: "There is only one stone (dàn) in the world, Cao Zijian monopolizes eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the world has one bucket." ”

Usage: subject-predicate; as a predicate, a definite, an object; Describe people with high literary talents and rich knowledge.

Example: Chen Guokai's "Price": "It often makes people awe-inspired, and they feel that Qiu Jianzhong is indeed a rich man.

Although Zuo Zongtang is a person, his strength is not broad. (Tang Haoming's "Zeng Guopan") synonyms: eight buckets of talent, talented, talented, rich and rich.

Antonyms: only sparse learning, only sparse ambition, only sparse wisdom.

Sentence: He is only eight years tall and proficient in everything.

Allusion: Xie Lingyun was a famous landscape poet writer in ancient China. Most of his poems describe the famous landscapes of Huiji, Yongjia, Lushan and other places, and he is good at depicting natural scenes, creating a school of landscape poetry in the history of literature.

The poems he wrote were very artistic, especially paying attention to the beauty of form, and were very popular with the literati. As soon as the psalms came out, people rushed to copy them, and they spread widely. Emperor Wen of Song appreciated his literary talent very much, and specially recalled him to Kyoto to take up his post, and called his poems and calligraphy "two treasures", and often asked him to write poems and compositions while serving banquets.

Xie Lingyun, who has always been pretentious, became even more arrogant after receiving this courtesy. Once, while drinking, he boasted to himself: "Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, there has been one stone (a unit of capacity, one stone is equal to ten buckets) of literary talents in the world, of which Cao Zijian (i.e. Cao Zhi) has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the rest of the world has one bucket."

It can be seen from his words that except for admiring Cao Zhi, other people's talents are not in his eyes, and his self-evaluation is very high.

Only eight buckets high''Again''Eight Bucket Talents''

It's about Li Bai. People have 10 fingers. A bucket refers to a vortex at a person's finger. Spiral-mounted fingerprints. Superstition says: the more fights, the higher. In general, there are very few people with eight buckets. And Li Bai is 10 buckets. That's why it's only eight buckets.

The metaphor is that people are extremely talented.

From]: "The Biography of Nanshi Xie Lingyun": "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and I have shared one bucket since ancient times and today." ”

Xie Lingyun said that there are only ten buckets in the world, and Cao Zijian has eight buckets alone.

The meaning of Cai Gao Badou is: to describe the literary talent is very high. Cai Gao Badou (pinyin:

cái gāo bādǒu) is an idiom in historical stories, and the idiom-related allusions first came from the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty Anonymous's "Shi Chang Tan Dou Zhi Cai".

The original meaning of "Cai Gao Badou" is to describe Cao Zijianwen as outstanding, and he has a total of one stone in the world, and he himself accounts for eight buckets; The post-parable is extremely learned; It can be used as a predicate, a predicate, and an object in a sentence.

Example sentences of Cai Gao Badou:1, Yan Yan is only eight buckets tall, and no problem can stop her.

2, Mr. Cao is only eight years old, and he can talk about it.

3. If a person is unlucky, even if he is only eight buckets, it is difficult to achieve success.

4, he is only eight buckets high, and the dragon controls Bintian, which is not trivial.

5. Listening to your words, I know that the words of the high eight buckets are not false.

6. When he spoke, he was very knowledgeable about the past and the present, and he was really talented.

7. Now that science and technology are so developed, who dares to claim to be talented like Xie Lingyun.

8. Although he prides himself on being talented, I don't feel this way when I read his writings.

It means that since the Wei and Jin dynasties, there has been a total of one stone of literary talents in the world, among which Cao Zijian (that is, Cao Zhi) has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the others have one bucket.

Source: "The Biography of Nanshi Xie Lingyun": "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and I have one bucket since ancient times." ”

石 [ dàn ].

A unit of capacity, one stone is equal to ten buckets. Read shí in ancient books, such as "two thousand stones, ten thousand stones", etc.

Source: "The Biography of Nanshi Xie Lingyun".

Original sentence: There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the hall has been divided into one bucket since ancient times and today.

Translation: Xie Lingyun said that since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the world's literary talents have a total of one stone of Dan Fu (a unit of capacity, one stone is equal to ten buckets), of which Cao Zijian (that is, Cao Zhi) has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the rest of the world has a bucket.

Meaning: Describe the literary talent is very high.

Pronunciation: cái gāo bā dǒu

Example sentence: If a person is unlucky, even if he is only eight buckets high, it is difficult to achieve success.

It means that the world's literary talents have a stone, Cao Zhicai is unparalleled, and he occupies eight buckets alone, I occupy one bucket, and the rest of the world shares another bucket.

1. Stone, China's municipal capacity unit, ten liters for one bucket, five buckets for one bucket; One stone of millet is equal to 2 hu.

2. Source: "Mengqiu": "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian (Cao Zhi) has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and I have shared one bucket since ancient times and today." The Southern Dynasty poet Xie Lingyun praised Cao Zhi's use of metaphors.

Idiom: Only eight buckets are high.

Pronunciation: cái gāo bā dǒu

Interpretation: The description of literary talent is very high.

3. This is the origin of the talent that people often say, which shows Cao Zhi's talent and fame. Since then, Xie Lingyun's sentence "talented and talented" has become synonymous with outstanding talent.

4. Praise the author for his high knowledge and good literary talent, and later it was called "Cai Zhan Badou", "Badou Cai", referred to as "Badoucai". The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin has the sentence "exhaust the eight talents of King Chen". Some people also combine the two broad and buried idioms of "eight buckets of talent" and "seven steps of talent" and call them "seven steps and eight buckets" to describe the agility and mastery of poetry.