字词 | 煮豆燃萁 |
释义 | ‘煮豆持作羹,漉豉以为汁。萁在釜下燃,豆在釜中泣。本自同根生,相煎何太急’(见于《世说新语·文学》)。比喻兄弟间自相残害。{burn beanstalks to cook beans; (fig.) fratricidal strife. It is said that Cao Pi, Emperor Wendi of the Kingdom of Wei, demanded of his younger brother Cao Zhi that he compose a poem in the time it took him to walk seven paces, promising that his life would be spared if he succeeded. Cao Zhi improvised immediately: ‘They were boiling beans on a beanstalk fire,/ Came a plaintive voice from the pot,/ “O why, since we sprang from the selfsame root,/ Should you kill me with anger hot? ”’(A New Account of Tales of the World·Letters and Scholarship)} |
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