{"id":12132,"date":"2019-11-19T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/every-lost-horse-has-a-silver-lining-sai-weng-shi-ma\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:15:21","slug":"every-lost-horse-has-a-silver-lining-sai-weng-shi-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/every-lost-horse-has-a-silver-lining-sai-weng-shi-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Lost Horse Has A Silver Lining \u585e\u7fc1\u5931\u9a6c"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chinese idiom \u585e\u7fc1\u5931\u9a6c (sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3) literally means the old man on the fro<em><\/em>ntier has lost his horse and comes from \u300a\u6dee\u5357\u5b50\u300b written by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>  o<em><\/em>nce upon a time, there was an old man called Sai Weng who lived on the northern fro<em><\/em>ntier of China. One day, his horse inexplicably disappeared. His neighbors and friends came to comfort him, but Sai Weng was not upset at all. He said<\/p>\n<p>  I have o<em><\/em>nly lost a horse, and this is not a big loss. Maybe something good will come of it in future.<\/p>\n<p>  Sure enough, he was right. A few days later, his horse returned and it was accompanied by another horse that was even better. His neighbors came to co<em><\/em>ngratulate him on his good fortune. But o<em><\/em>nce again, Sai Weng had a different point of view. He said his good luck might turn out to be misfortune in the end. Strangely, he was right again. A few days later, his son fell from the new horse and broke his leg. But even this unfortunate event had a positive side too. Since his son was lame after that accident, he was not cons<em><\/em>cripted as a soldier to fight in the war and co<em><\/em>nsequently lived safely with his family out of harms way.<\/p>\n<p>  Today, Chinese people use the idiom \u585e\u7fc1\u5931\u9a6c to comfort those who have suffered some misfortune. Effectively, they are saying<\/p>\n<p>  Don&#8217;t worry, even the most unhappy situation may result in something good.<\/p>\n<p>  The English idiom (actually, an English proverb) that has a very similar meaning is every cloud has a silver lining. This English ex<em><\/em>pression was originally used by William Shakespeare in one of his plays in a slightly different form<\/p>\n<p>  For every cloud engenders not a storm.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3475714326\"><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 \u585e\u7fc1\u5931\u9a6c (sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3) literally means the old man on the frontier has lost his horse<\/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-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}