Is there an allusion to the fact that it is better to break the jade than to be a tile?

In 550 AD, Gao Yang, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty of the Northern Dynasty, forced Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty to abdicate and established the Northern Qi Dynasty. The following year, Emperor Xiaojing and his three sons were poisoned. One year there was a solar eclipse, and Gao Yang was worried that his throne was not guaranteed, so he asked a cronie:

Wang Mang took the world of the Liu family, why was Liu Xiu able to take the world back later? The cronie said, "Your Majesty, Wang Mang himself is to blame."

He did not exterminate the Liu family. Gao Yang immediately opened the killing ring again: he killed more than 700 people from the twenty-five direct royal families of the Eastern Wei Dynasty surnamed Yuan (formerly surnamed Tuoba), and not even the babies were spared.

When the news came, the Yuan surnames of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were very scared, and they hurriedly gathered to discuss countermeasures. There was a county magistrate named Yuan Jing'an who said: The only way to save their lives at the moment is to ask Gao Yang to allow them to leave the Yuan clan and change their surname to Gao.

Yuan Jing'an's cousin Yuan Jinghao resolutely objected, saying: "How can you save your life by abandoning your own sect and taking refuge in his surname?" The eldest husband would rather make jade and be broken than make pottery to be preserved!

I'd rather die than change my surname. ”

It is better to be broken than to be a complete tile", a metaphor that would rather sacrifice for integrity. (From "The Biography of Yuan Jing'an in the Book of Northern Qi").

From "The Book of Northern Qi: The Biography of Yuan Jing'an": "How can you abandon your own sect and chase his surname, the eldest husband would rather have the jade broken than the whole." ”

It is better to make jade to be broken, than to make pottery and preserve. The metaphor would rather sacrifice for a just cause than lose integrity and steal a living.

As long as it's the answer.

It is better to be broken than to be complete.

The words of "The Book of Northern Qi and the Biography of Yuan Jing'an": "Chu Yong (Yuan Jing'an's father) brother Zuo attacked the king of Chen Liu, Zuo, and his son Jing Hao's heir. Tianbao (Emperor Gao Yang of Qi Wenxuan), Emperor Zhu Yuan was killed by many people, such as Jing'an's disciples, and wanted to ask for the surname Gao, Jing Hao (Yuan Jing'an's cousin) said:

Shall you abandon your own sect and chase him out of his surname? The eldest husband would rather break the jade than destroy it. Jing An then said that Bai Xianzu (referring to Gao Yang) was to receive Jing Hao's punishment, and his family moved to Pengcheng, and Jing An gave the surname Gao alone.

Rather for the jade to be broken, not for the tile (Jing Hao).

The meaning of this sentence is: jade can be broken, but it cannot change its white nature; Bamboo can be burned, but not its joints. It expresses Guan Yu's generosity and heroism, and would rather be a broken jade than a complete tile.

This sentence comes from the seventy-sixth chapter of Ming Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Xu Gongming's Great War Swept Water, Guan Yunchang Defeated and Took Wheat City": Jade can be broken but cannot be changed, bamboo can be burned but not destroyed, although the body is dead, the name can be hung on the bamboo silk.

Synonym. 宁為玉碎,不為瓦全 [ nìng wéi yù suì,bù wéi wǎ quán ]

Interpretation: The parable never survives in humiliation.

Source: "The Book of Northern Qi Yuan Jing'an": "The eldest husband would rather have the jade broken than the whole." ”

Example: We would rather be broken than broken. If you can break through, break through, and if you can't get out, fight with them to the end.

Rather be a broken jade than a complete tile This idiom is found in the "Northern Qi Book: The Biography of Yuan Jing'an": "The eldest husband would rather have the jade broken than the whole tile!" "Rather for the broken jade, not for the tile" means that it is better to make jade to be broken, not to make clay tiles to be preserved.

People often use this idiom as a metaphor to prefer to maintain a noble temperament and die rather than be humiliated.

Rather than jade crushed, not for the tile, all staring at the forest:

It is better to make jade to be broken, than to make pottery and preserve. The metaphor would rather sacrifice for a just cause than lose integrity and steal a living.

The meeting of Michi mainly tells the story that in 279 B.C., the king of Qin and the king of Zhao met in Michi (now west of Michi, Henan), and he accompanied Zhao Xiaocheng to reprimand the powerful Qin state in person, not dishonoring the national body, so that the king of Zhao was not humiliated, so the story of meritorious service.

In the second year of Lin Xiangru's return to Zhao, in the seventeenth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (282 BC), Qin sent troops to capture Zhao's two cities under the pretext that Zhao would not join forces with him. In the eighteenth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (281 BC), Qin soldiers invaded Zhao and captured Shicheng (about the southwest of present-day Linxian County, Henan). In the nineteenth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (280 B.C.), the Qin general Bai Yize led an army to attack Zhao, took the city of Wolf (about the west of today's Gaoping County, Shanxi), and killed 30,000 people of Zhao.

While Qin made military threats against Zhao, he also diplomatically forced Zhao to submit. In the twentieth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (279 BC), the King of Qin sent an envoy to inform King Zhao to have a friendly meeting at the place of Mianchi outside the Xihe River (now in the west of Mianchi County, Henan). King Zhao was afraid of the Qin State and wanted to say goodbye.

Lian Po and Lin Xiangru said to King Zhao after discussing it"The king did not go to the meeting, which showed that our Zhao Kingdom was weak and timid. "So King Zhao decided to go to meet the King of Qin and take Lin Xiangru with him.

Lian Po was sent to the border, and when he said goodbye to King Zhao, he agreed:"After the king's departure, it is estimated that the round-trip journey and the etiquette of the meeting will be completed, and it will only take thirty days before and after.

If you do not return after thirty days, please let us make the crown prince king, so as to cut off the idea of Qin detaining you as a threat. "King Zhao agreed.