{"id":7327,"date":"2019-11-04T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/consoling-oneself-with-false-hope-chinese-idiom-wang-mei-zhi-ke\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:39:54","slug":"consoling-oneself-with-false-hope-chinese-idiom-wang-mei-zhi-ke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/consoling-oneself-with-false-hope-chinese-idiom-wang-mei-zhi-ke\/","title":{"rendered":"Consoling oneself with false hope \u2013 Chinese idiom \u671b\u6885\u6b62\u6e34"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Chinese idiom \u671b\u6885\u6b62\u6e34 w&agrave;ng m&eacute;i zh\u01d0 k\u011b means to co<em><\/em>nsole o<em><\/em>neself with false hope, to satisfy one&rsquo;s craving by building illusion or daydreams. \u671b means &ldquo;look at&rdquo;, \u6885 means &ldquo;plum&rdquo;, \u6b62 means &ldquo;stop, quench&rdquo;, \u6e34 means &ldquo;thirst&rdquo;. This idiom originated from a historical story that is worth telling.<\/p>\n<p>  In Dong Hang dynasty, Cao Cao (\u66f9\u64cd C&aacute;o C\u0101o), a famous general, was leading his army to attack his enemy. While they were marching through some drought areas in a hot summer, soldiers became dehydrated and were craving for water. Cao Cao let the army to have a break and sent a few people to search for water. However, water was nowher to find.<\/p>\n<p>  At that moment, Cao Cao got an idea. He told his soldiers that a plum tree forest in not far ahead. There were big and ripe plums growing on the tree. His soldiers became excited upon hearing the good news. By imagining eating plums in their mind, their mouth were watered with saliva and that motivated them to march even further ahead.<\/p>\n<p>  So that story was ended up with soldiers quenching their thirst for water by envisio<em><\/em>ning themselves eating plums. The idiom is mostly used in a negative way to describe doing nothing but day dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>  You can learn how to use the idiom in the following examples:<\/p>\n<p>  l\u01cendu&ograve; de t\u0101 du&igrave; ch&eacute;ngg\u014dng ch&eacute;ngti\u0101n k\u014dngxi\u01ceng, w&agrave;ngm&eacute;izh\u01d0k\u011b.<\/p>\n<p>  \u61d2\u60f0\u7684\u4ed6\u5bf9\u6210\u529f\u6210\u5929\u7a7a\u60f3, \u671b\u6885\u6b62\u6e34.<\/p>\n<p>  Being a lazy person, he kept day dreaming of his success to co<em><\/em>nsole himself.<br \/>  1. wang-mei-zhi-ke-e01 <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  r&uacute;gu\u01d2 z&agrave;ib&ugrave; k\u0101ish\u01d0 x&iacute;ngd&ograve;ng, w\u01d2men du&igrave; c\u0101ns&agrave;i b&igrave;ng n&aacute; ji\u01ceng de yu&agrave;nw&agrave;ng zh\u01d0n&eacute;ng w&agrave;ngm&eacute;izh\u01d0k\u011b le.<\/p>\n<p>  \u5982\u679c\u518d\u4e0d\u5f00\u59cb\u884c\u52a8, \u6211\u4eec\u5bf9\u53c2\u8d5b\u5e76\u62ff\u5956\u7684\u613f\u671b\u53ea\u80fd\u671b\u6885\u6b62\u6e34\u4e86.<\/p>\n<p>  If we don&rsquo;t take action now, we can o<em><\/em>nly co<em><\/em>nsole ourselves by day dreaming the winning of the competition.<br \/>  2. wang-mei-zhi-ke-e02 <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3466243020\"><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>Chinese idiom \u671b\u6885\u6b62\u6e34 w&agrave;ng m&eacute;i zh\u01d0 k\u011b means to console oneself with false hope, to satisfy one&rsquo;s craving by building<\/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":[2841,4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-7327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-language-vocabulary","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":392,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","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=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}