{"id":4495,"date":"2019-11-19T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/sai-weng-shi-ma-yan-zhi-fei-fu-sai4-weng1-shi1-ma3-yan1-zhi1-fei1-fu2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:15:32","slug":"sai-weng-shi-ma-yan-zhi-fei-fu-sai4-weng1-shi1-ma3-yan1-zhi1-fei1-fu2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/sai-weng-shi-ma-yan-zhi-fei-fu-sai4-weng1-shi1-ma3-yan1-zhi1-fei1-fu2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u585e\u7fc1\u5931\u9a6c\u7109\u77e5\u975e\u798f \u2013 sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3 yan1 zhi1 fei1 fu2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal translation &ndash; saiweng (persons name) &ndash; lose &ndash; horse &ndash; how &ndash; know &ndash; not &ndash; blessing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This basically can be translated as &ldquo;a blessing in disguise&rdquo; or even &ldquo;a curse in disguise&rdquo; ie the opposite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes from a story a<em><\/em>bout an old man  named &ldquo;Saiweng&rdquo;.&nbsp; He lost his horse and his friends came to comfort him  but he was optimistic saying that it could be a good thing.&nbsp; He turned  out to be correct when sometime later the horse returned bringing with  it another better horse.&nbsp; His friends again came to him this time joyful  but Saiweng wasn&rsquo;t so sure this was a good thing.&nbsp; Turned out his son  broke his leg while riding this new horse.&nbsp; o<em><\/em>nce again his friends came  to comfort him over his son&rsquo;s injury but Saiweng o<em><\/em>nce again didn&rsquo;t  necessarily view it as a bad thing right away.&nbsp; Rightly so as the broken  leg prevented his son from being cons<em><\/em>cripted into the army and  therefore saved his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This proverb is generally used to  comfort someone if they have fallen sick or had some sort of  catastrophe.&nbsp; It could also theoretically be used in the opposite way  for someone who has had something very good happen to them but I highly  doubt it is ever used in this sense, as who ever wants to rain on  someone&rsquo;s parade and spoil the moment ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So although it can be used to warn  people that the apparent good fortune may be bad luck waiting to happen,  it is more commo<em><\/em>nly used to try to cheer up someone who is troubled  over some misfortune that has befallen them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-956800255\"><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>Literal translation &ndash; saiweng (persons name) &ndash; lose &ndash; horse &ndash; how &ndash; know &ndash; not &ndash; blessing<\/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":[2834,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases"],"views":173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","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=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}