What does it mean to cover your ears and steal the bell?

Covering ears and stealing bells: Originally covering ears and stealing bells.

Pinyin: yǎn ěr dào líng

Interpretation: mask: cover; Thief: Steal. Covering your ears and stealing bells, thinking that you can't hear others will not hear, is a metaphor for self-deception.

Source: "Lü's Spring and Autumn Self-Knowledge": "The death of the Fan family is also, and the people have the bell." If you want to go negatively, you can't bear it; With the destruction of the vertebrae, the bell has a sound. Fear that people will hear about it and take away their own ears, and cover their ears. The wicked hear it, but also; Evil self-heard, perverse. ”

Translations and annotations.

Translation: When Fan was fleeing, a man took the opportunity to steal a bell and tried to escape with it on his back. However, the bell was too big to be recited, so he planned to smash it with a hammer and carry it later.

Who knows, as soon as it was smashed, the bell "banged" loudly. He was afraid that others would hear the bell and come and take it away, so he hurriedly covered his ears tightly and continued to ring. The fear of others hearing the sound of the bell is understandable; But it's ridiculous to cover your ears and think that others can't hear them either.

Notes: 1) The death of the Fan family: The Fan family was a nobleman of the Jin Kingdom in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and after being defeated by the other four nobles, he fled to the Qi State.

Death, flight. 2) Bell: An ancient percussion instrument.

3) Then: But.

4) Negative: Carry things on your back.

5) hammer (chuí): mallet or stick.

6) 情 (huàng) 然: Describe the sound of a bell.

7) 遽 (jù): immediately.

8) 悖 (bèi): absurd. (8) Evil (e): Fear.

Meaning: The ringing of the bell is objective, whether you hide your ears or not, it will always ring. Everything that wants to exist objectively does not depend on people's subjective will.

Some people adopt an attitude of not acknowledging the objective existence that they don't like, thinking that in this way, the objectivity does not exist, which is the same as "covering up their ears and stealing the bell", which is the manifestation of extreme subjective idealism - solipsism.

Source: "Lü's Spring and Autumn Self-Knowledge".

The death of the Fan family is also, and the people have the bell. If you want to go negatively, you can't bear it; With the destruction of the vertebrae, the bell has a sound. Fear that people will hear about it and take away their own ears, and cover their ears. The wicked hear it, but also; Evil self-heard, perverse.

Meaning to cover your ears and steal someone else's bell. This idiom comes from Lü Buwei's "Lü's Spring and Autumn Self-Knowledge" in the Warring States period.

It is a metaphor for deceiving oneself, and the things that can't be covered up have to be covered up.

Covering your ears and thinking that you can't hear and think that others can't hear either, a metaphor for self-deception, from "Lü's Spring and Autumn".

The idiom of covering your ears and stealing the bell originally meant to cover your ears to steal someone else's bell, and then compared yourself to deceiving yourself.

1. Detailed Interpretation.

1, Ming Zhao Bi's "The Biography of Zhongli Suo": "If you stay at the post today, you are still hiding your ears and stealing the bell." ”

2, Qing Cao Xueqin's "Cheng Yiben Dream of Red Mansions" Chapter 9: "Even if you read thirty more copies of the Book of Songs, you will just cover your ears and steal the bell and coax people." ”

3, the fourteenth chapter of Qing Li Ruzhen's "Mirror Flowers": "Although he covered it with silk to cover everyone's ears and eyes, he knew that he was covering his ears and stealing the bell." ”

4, Modern Wen Yiduo "Beware of the Legalization of Traitors": "Legalizing traitors is just a clumsy trick to cover your ears and steal the bell." ”

Second, the meaning of the idiom

Everything that wants to exist objectively will not change according to man's subjective will, just like the ringing of a bell, as long as a person touches it, whether he covers his ears or not, it will make a sound. In reality, there are also people who do not face up to and study the objective reality, and adopt an attitude of closing their eyes and ears, thinking that in this case, it does not exist.

This is the same as "covering one's ears and stealing the bell", which is a manifestation of extreme subjective idealism-solipsism. If we do not face up to the objective reality, do not study it, and adopt an attitude of closing our eyes and listening to it, the result will only be self-reaping.

Sentence formation of covering ears and stealing bells:

1. This article cites the allusion of "covering your ears and stealing the bell", and the theme is even more prominent.

2. Do you think you can deceive others by covering your ears and stealing the bell like this?

3. Whether in study or work, we should seek truth from facts, and not hide our ears and steal bells, and deceive ourselves.

4. He will never do anything to cover his ears and steal the bell.

5. This thing is not what you imagined, it is essentially covering your ears and stealing the bell.

1. The Kaibi people who stole the bell were afraid of the bell ringing, so they blocked the ears of their own grandsons, thinking that they couldn't hear the loud noise, and others couldn't hear it. Parable yourself to deceive yourself. Cover: Cover.

2. Source: "Lü's Spring and Autumn Self-Knowledge": "The people have the bell; Walk away with a negative desire; then the bell is too big to bear; to destroy it with vertebrae; The bell sounded. I'm afraid that people will hear about it and take it away from me. Cover their ears. The wicked hear it; can also; Evil to oneself; Paradox. ”

1. Covering ears and stealing bells: It was originally covering ears and stealing bells. Slow masking: covering; Thief: Steal. Covering your ears and stealing bells, thinking that if you can't hear others, you won't be able to hear, is a metaphor for self-deception.

2. The moral of the story: The ringing of the bell is objective, whether you cover your ears or not, it is to ring. Anything that wants to exist objectively will not be changed by people's subjective will.

Some people do not admit the objective existence that is unfavorable to them or do not like it, thinking that in this way, it does not exist, which is the same as "covering up their ears and stealing the bell", which is the manifestation of extreme subjective idealism -- the theory of only cong and self. If we do not face up to the objective reality, do not study it, and adopt an attitude of closing our eyes and listening to it, we will eventually reap the bitter fruits.

1. Covering your ears and stealing the bell means covering your ears to steal the bell, thinking that you can't hear it, and others won't hear it. Parable yourself to deceive yourself.

2. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a small Lingdan chain who wanted to steal something and saw a big bell hanging in the yard. The bell is cast in fine bronze and has beautiful shapes and patterns. The thief was overjoyed and wanted to carry the bell back to his house.

But the bell was so big and heavy that it couldn't be moved. He wanted to break the bell and move it home. The thief found a sledgehammer and threw it at the bell desperately, and the loud bang startled him.

The thief was in a hurry, and covered his ears with all his might, and found that the bell had become quieter. The thief rejoiced, "Won't you hear the bell if you cover your ears?" He immediately called for two cloth regiments, plugged his ears, and let go of the bell, and the people heard the bell and rushed to catch the thief.