Holding ice in cold winter refers to holding ice tightly in the face of cold winter, which means people's indomitable and persistent mental attitude. The allusion of this idiom comes from wuyue Gou Jian's Biography of Returning to China in the Spring and Autumn Period.
According to legend, Gou Jian is the King of Yue. After being captured by Wu, he was humiliated in Wu. However, Gou Jian never gave up his revenge on Wu. He decided to work hard and secretly train the army. One winter, Gou Jian personally went to the snow to observe the palace of the king of Wu, and found that the king of Wu was very arrogant about ice and snow, so he asked people to shovel a road for him when it snowed.
This made Gou Jian deeply feel the arrogance and arrogance of the rulers of Wu. Therefore, Gou Jian made up his mind not only to hold ice cubes in winter to stimulate himself, but also to mark the words "win" on the ice cubes to urge himself to stick to his ambition of serving the country. He wants to show that he will never give in, and Wu will pay for it.
Therefore, this idiom is often used to describe a person's indomitable spirit of doing things, not afraid of difficulties and hardships, and going forward bravely. This idiom not only symbolizes the cold winter, but also reminds people of hard work and perseverance, always reminding people to persist in pursuit, not afraid of setbacks and never give up.
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