Chapter 2 Vegetarian Meal

Shi Yinshi is a person in ancient rituals who sits and watches on behalf of the gods without any action. There is a sentence in the "Book of Books": "Taikang corpse seat""The corpse seat comes from this, and it is used to describe a person who has a position but no work to do, just like the corpse in the sacrifice, who only sits on the seat and does not have to do it. Like any action. "Vegetarian meal" is also derived from the Book of Songs: "The gentleman is here, and he is not vegetarian." Later generations used "vegetarian meal" to describe people who have no merit.Combining "corpse position" and "vegetarian meal" into an idiom should be said to have come from "Han Shu", because the book's "Zhu Yun Biography" wraps up: "The ministers of the current court can't change the master, and the lower ones will die later." Yimin, all the corpses are vegetarian meals." The meaning of the whole idiom is also the same as the above-mentioned corpses and vegetarian meals.In this way, we need to study the source of the idiom, and we should also know the source of this idiom in detail.

In general, the redundant staff of agencies, associations, and shops, relying on personnel or other special relationships, only know to receive their monthly salaries regularly, eat, drink and sit around every day without doing any work. Such people can be said to be "vegetarian".In addition, people with poor working ability, although they have done their best to serve, but they always fail to do things well, and there is no accumulation at all. This kind of people can maintain their positions not by their own ability, but by borrowing There is a special relationship, so it can also be said "vegetarian meal in the corpse".Another example is a person who told a friend that he had no skills at first, but he was lucky enough to be taken care of by the proprietor, and his life was settled, but he was "eating a vegetarian meal" and felt a little guilty in his conscience.Saying this, it has become a very decent modest word.