{"id":12130,"date":"2019-11-19T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/the-guizhou-donkey-qian-lv-ji-qiong\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:07:45","slug":"the-guizhou-donkey-qian-lv-ji-qiong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/the-guizhou-donkey-qian-lv-ji-qiong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guizhou Donkey \u9ed4\u9a74\u6280\u7a77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chinese idiom \u9ed4\u9a74\u6280\u7a77 (qian2 lv2 ji4 qiong2) literally means the do<em><\/em>nkey in Guizhou is out of tricks . It comes from a story a<em><\/em>bout a do<em><\/em>nkey and tiger in ancient Guizhou \uff08a province in China\uff09.<\/p>\n<p>  In ancient times, Guizhou had no donkeys. One day, a man had a bright idea and decided to ship a do<em><\/em>nkey to the region. But he soon discovered the do<em><\/em>nkey was no use, so he took it into the mountains and left it there.<\/p>\n<p>  A tiger living in the mountains saw the do<em><\/em>nkey and, having never seen one before, thought it was a mysterious beast. He hid himself carefully in the woods and warily observed the do<em><\/em>nkey from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>  One day, the do<em><\/em>nkey brayed. The tiger thought the do<em><\/em>nkey was going to bite him, but the do<em><\/em>nkey did nothing more. The tiger quickly became accustomed to the noise and plucked up the courage to move in to get a closer look at the donkey. At last, he decided to provoke the strange beast. The do<em><\/em>nkey respo<em><\/em>nded by giving the tiger a kick. However, in hindsight this was a mistake as the kick didn&#8217;t hurt the tiger very much at all. As a result, the tiger co<em><\/em>ncluded that the do<em><\/em>nkey was weak and posed no threat whatsoever. He sprang on the do<em><\/em>nkey and enjoyed a tasty meal!<\/p>\n<p>  People use this Chinese idiom to describe situations wher someone has demo<em><\/em>nstrated that they lack a certain ability or skill. Todate, I have not been able to think of an English idiom with an equivalent meaning. Please co<em><\/em>ntact me if you think you might know one.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3743032823\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese idiom \u9ed4\u9a74\u6280\u7a77 (qian2 lv2 ji4 qiong2) literally means the donkey in Guizhou is out of tricks . It<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":1183,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}