[Pinyin]
cāo gótón shì
[Interpretation]
Brothers kill each other or have internal disputes.
[source]
Sun Yat-sen's "Advice from the President to the Soldiers of the Northern Army": "With the selfishness of the Manchu stealing the throne, the Han people avenge the tragic murder and fuck the heart of brothers, which makes people laugh."
2. Beans and beans are cooked together
[Pinyin]
Hello, hello.
[Interpretation]
Metaphor brothers eat each other.
[source]
The seven-step poem of the Three Kingdoms: "Boil beans and burn them, and the beans weep in the kettle. This is the same root, and it is urgent not to speculate with each other. "
3. The Wall of Brothers
[Pinyin]
Xichang city
[Interpretation]
Terbium: Fighting. An argument between brothers is also a metaphor for internal strife.
[source]
"The Book of Songs Xiaoya Long Beach": "Brothers fight over the wall and defend it from the outside."
[example]
You are a family, so why bother with your brothers?
4, flesh and blood cannibalism
[Pinyin]
gǔ·ròu Xiāng cán
[Interpretation]
Relatives kill each other. Metaphor is killing each other.
[source]
In the Southern Dynasties, Liu Yiqing wrote "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Politics": "Zhong Gong said:' Stealing and killing the rich man, how can it be flesh and blood?' "
5. Self-feeding fish
[Pinyin]
Lady Yang
[Interpretation]
Fish: generally slaughtered as fish. Metaphor is killing each other inside.
[source]
"Liu Jinyuan Hai Shu": "Now Sima and his son eat fish, and now they hate gold, so they give it."
[example]
Close relatives of the same flesh and blood should not eat fish from each other.