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bìng gāo huāng
chūn qiū shí jìn jǐng gōng yǒu
le zhòng bìng tīng shuō qín guó
yǒu shù hěn gāo míng de
shēng biàn zhuān chéng pài rén qǐng lái
便
yǒu wǎn jìn jǐng gōng huǎng zhōng
zuò le mèng mèng jiàn le liǎng
xiǎo hái zhèng qiǎo qiǎo zài shēn
páng shuō huà
shuō gāo míng de
shēng shàng jiù yào lái le
kàn men zhè huí nán táo le
men duǒ dào shén me fāng
lìng xiǎo hái shuō dào zhè
méi shén me de men duǒ
dào huāng de shàng miàn gāo de xià miàn
lùn zěn yáng yòng yào
nài men
qín guó de míng dào le
bèi qǐng jìn le jìn jǐng gōng
de shì jìn jǐng gōng zhì bìng
zhěn duàn hòu shēng duì jìn jǐng
gōng shuō zhè bìng méi bàn
zhì le bìng zài huāng zhī shàng
gāo zhī xià yòng jiǔ gōng zhì
xíng zhā zhēn yòu dào chī
tāng yào xiào dào
zhè bìng shì shí zài méi zhì
le
zhè chéng shì qíng dào le
wǎn huí de
In the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋时期,770-476 BC), King Jing of the State of Jin (晋国) fell ill. And he heard that there was a doctor of exceptional skill, so he dispatched person to invite the doctor.
One night he dreamed that the disease turned into two little kids talking beside him.
One said, “I’m afraid the doctor will hurt us.”
The other said, “Do not worry. We can hide above ‘huang’ and below ‘gao’. Then the doctor will be able to do nothing to us.”
The next day, having examined the king, the doctor said, ‘Your disease is incurable, I am afraid, Your Majesty. It’ above huang and below gao, where no medicine can reach.’
The idiom indicates a hopeless condition.
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