{"id":12108,"date":"2019-11-18T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/a-precarious-pile-of-eggs-wei-ru-lei-luan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:39:15","slug":"a-precarious-pile-of-eggs-wei-ru-lei-luan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/a-precarious-pile-of-eggs-wei-ru-lei-luan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Precarious Pile of Eggs \u5371\u5982\u7d2f\u5375"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chinese idiom \u5371\u5982\u7d2f\u5375 (wei1 ru2 lei3 luan3) literally means as precarious as a pile of eggs and comes from a story a<em><\/em>bout King Liu Pi, ruler of the State of Wu.<\/p>\n<p>  After his son was killed during a quarrel with a prince of the Han imperial court, King Liu grew to hate the Han regime with a passion. He started by pretending that he was under the weather in order to miss the regular sessions of the imperial court. But, ultimately this did not help. So, he began plotting a rebellion against the Han regime.<\/p>\n<p>  King Liu Pi&#8217;s aid, Mei Cheng, heard a<em><\/em>bout the plot and warned the king that he could not succeed in a battle against the Han regime and that he was likely to be taken to the cleaners. Mei advised the king that to co<em><\/em>ntinue plotting against such a formidable foe would leave the king in a situation as precarious as a pile of eggs.<\/p>\n<p>  Mei&#8217;s prediction was correct. When the Han emperor was told that some states, including King Liu Pi&#8217;s State of Wu, were expanding their military he introduced measures to tighten the co<em><\/em>ntrol of his central government. And when Liu&#8217;s plot of rebellion finally came to light, the emperor sent in a large army to crush the revolt. In just three months, all the rebel troops from the State of Wu were wiped out and King Liu Pi was killed.<\/p>\n<p>  The popular Chinese idiom \u5371\u5982\u7d2f\u5375 (wei1 ru2 lei3 luan3) is today used to describe situations wher a person has placed themselves (or has been placed by circumstances) in a situation wher there is an imminent danger of something bad happening. English speakers might describe a person in such as situation as being on a slippery slope.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3599662463\"><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 \u5371\u5982\u7d2f\u5375 (wei1 ru2 lei3 luan3) literally means as precarious as a pile of eggs and comes from<\/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-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":254,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}