Interpretation: Among the 70 proud students of Confucius, only Yan Yuan is considered to be studious. However, Yan Yuan was always so poor that he didn't even have enough food, and finally he died prematurely. Stealing feet and killing innocent people all day, roasting people's hearts as meat, brutally indulging, rallying thousands of partisans to run amok all over the world, and even dying a long life. So this idiom means that good people are not rewarded, heaven has no eyes, and the fate of good and evil is unfair.

Allusion: Stealing feet was originally the leader of a peasant uprising in the Spring and Autumn Period. Under the influence of the cultural background at that time, it was compared to an evil force, just as Zhang, the leader of the uprising, was called a "rogue", while Yan Yuan was Confucius' apprentice and the most virtuous of his disciples, so he was compared to kindness. In the Yuan Dynasty, there is a passage quoting these two words: "At dusk, the sun and the moon hang, and ghosts and gods hold the right to life and death.

Heaven and earth are only clear and turbid, how can we give birth to "Yan Yuan who steals feet"? People who do good will live shorter in poverty, while those who do evil will live longer in prosperity. Heaven and earth have done things that are afraid of bullying, but the result is so natural. Land is hard for you, no matter good or bad; God, you are both smart and stupid! Alas, only two tears fell.

The extended information, Zhi Yi, is a thief who led thousands of bandits in China folklore during the Spring and Autumn Period. According to legend, the original name was Zhan Xiong, Ji surname, Zhan Shi, Yi Zuoxiong, also known as Liu and Liu Zhanxiong, which were called "stealing feet" and "Jie feet" in ancient books in the pre-Qin period. At that time, the younger brother of the sage of Lu (Liu Xia) was the son of Lu and the descendant of the son Zhan, taking Zhan as his surname.

Because bandits who steal people's feet like to "rob women", North China believes that stealing people's feet is the patron saint of prostitutes and respects it as the "white-browed god". "Ghost Story": "When you are wronged, you ask:' Where did this God come from and what was his birth name? "Liu Jinniang said,' I don't know the details. I only heard that the old woman died that day and said that Liu had stolen her feet. "

There is also a saying:' Since the Spring and Autumn Period, as for today, prostitutes are respected at home, as big as their ancestors. " "

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