{"id":4496,"date":"2019-11-19T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/shen-zai-cao-ying-xin-zai-han-shen1-zai4-cao2-ying2-xin1-zai4-han4\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:18:04","slug":"shen-zai-cao-ying-xin-zai-han-shen1-zai4-cao2-ying2-xin1-zai4-han4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/shen-zai-cao-ying-xin-zai-han-shen1-zai4-cao2-ying2-xin1-zai4-han4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8eab\u5728\u66f9\u8425\u5fc3\u5728\u6c49 \u2013 shen1 zai4 cao2 ying2 xin1 zai4 han4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal translation = body &ndash; at &ndash; Cao (name) &ndash; camp &ndash; heart &ndash; at &ndash; Han (name)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idiomatic translation = Your body is in the camp of Cao but your heart is in Han&rsquo;s camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a very nice Ancient Chinese  Proverb.&nbsp; If you can use it correctly it will really touch the hearts of  Chinese people and they will be highly impressed with your Chinese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cao was a famous war general and appears  in the famous book The Three Kingdoms.&nbsp; I haven&rsquo;t read the book myself  but I know the other famous general in there is Zhu Ge Liang and I  assume there is one named &ldquo;Han&rdquo; as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am not sure if there is a specific  story a<em><\/em>bout a certain soldier whom this idiom applies to or not, but it  basically comes the history of Caocao and his wars at the time of the  The 3 Kindgoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The usage and meaning of this is quite  specific.&nbsp; I used to think it just meant someone who is there in body  but not in spirit (perhaps day dreaming) but the real meaning is a<em><\/em>bout  wher someone&rsquo;s loyalty lies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, a company is bought out by a  bigger company and maybe fires the managers and a new manager comes  in.&nbsp; You still have the same job but now you have a new boss, however  you still love the old boss and have devotion to him or her.&nbsp; So  although your body is working for the new company and new management,  you miss the old company and management and still have loyalty to them  even begrudgingly co<em><\/em>ntinuing your job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, there aren&rsquo;t many opportunities to use this idiom as it&rsquo;s meaning is quite specific.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3568660950\"><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 = body &ndash; at &ndash; Cao (name) &ndash; camp &ndash; heart &ndash; at &ndash; Han (name)<\/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":[119],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-ancient-chinese"],"views":154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}