{"path":"/entry/96150","title":"血流漂杵 (xuè liú piāo chǔ) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"血流漂杵 (xuè liú piāo chǔ): enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom) · rivers of blood. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":96150,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["血流漂杵"],"TRADITIONAL":["血流漂杵"]}},"phonetic":"xuè liú piāo chǔ","phoneticKey":"xue4 liu2 piao1 chu3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"enough blood flowing to float pestles ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"rivers of blood","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"blood bath","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["漂"],"TRADITIONAL":["漂"]}},"phonetic":"piāo","primaryPhonetic":"piào"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":96149,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["血流成河"],"TRADITIONAL":["血流成河"]}},"phonetic":"xuè liú chéng hé","gloss":{"simplified":"rivers of blood (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":"so much blood being shed as to float the pestles","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"According to Gu, 1983, coined by Mencius to describe the fierceness of the battle in which King Wu had defeated King Zhou.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Note that the abovementioned article is cited by many dictionaries as the earliest source, listed in the first position. However, that text is actually one of the twenty-five additional chapters of Guwen Shangshu or Old Script Book of Documents, which was later proven to be counterfeited by Mei Ze circa 318 CE. It is now widely believed that Shi Fu (literally, “Enormous Captives”) is what he had really read, or at least has to do with Wu Cheng (literally, “Accession of King Wu”).","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"孟子曰：「尽信书，则不如无书。吾于《武成》，取二三策而已矣。仁人无敌于天下。以至仁伐至不仁，而何其血之流杵也？」","traditional":"孟子曰：「盡信書，則不如無書。吾於《武成》，取二三策而已矣。仁人無敵於天下。以至仁伐至不仁，而何其血之流杵也？」"},"phonetic":"Mèngzǐ yuē: “Jìn xìn shū, zé bùrú wú shū. Wú yú “Wǔchéng”, qǔ èrsān cè éryǐ yǐ. Rénrén wúdí yú tiānxià. Yǐ zhì rén fá zhì bùrén, ér hé qí xuè zhī liú chǔ yě?”","english":"Mencius said, \"It would be better to be without the historical documents than to indiscriminately believe them. In the Accession of King Wu, I merely credit a few passages. A benevolent man is invincible under heaven. When the most benevolent one was engaged against him who was the most malevolent, how could the blood of the people have still flowed till it floated the pestles?\"","ref":"Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}