2014年10月2日星期四

Stories of Chinese word and term (17)

鸟尽弓藏when there is no bird the bow would be hidden, in the Chinese history we see many times that a contributing minister of a monarchy was killed after the new government was in power, the historian called this as 功高震主, the feats is too great that threatened his master. And they gave this phenomenon a special term as 鸟尽弓藏,兔死狗烹, when there is no bird the bow would be hidden, when there is no hare, the dog is going to be cooked.


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