What are the idioms that begin with the word cow?

1. Small test of ox knife

Explanation: ox knife: the knife that kills cattle; Test: Use it a little, and show your skill at first. Metaphorically, people with great skills show their skills in small things first. It is also a metaphor for a capable person to show his talent as soon as he starts to work.

Source: Song Su Shi's poem "Send Ouyang Master Book to Guanwei City": "I have read all the toothpicks for 3, axes, and I want to come to Xiaoyi to try the knife."

2. Drizzle with ox hair

Explanation: It means fine and dense light rain, like ox hair.

Origin: Qing Liang Shaoren's "Essays on Two Kinds of Autumn Rain Temple", Volume 5: "The drizzle of cattle hair sends the setting sun."

3. Niu Wei Ma Bo

Explanation: It is a metaphor that what is generally considered useless can become useful items in the hands of people who know its performance. 1. When metaphor is used properly, useless things can become useful. 2. Borrow the humble and useful materials. It can also be used to describe a doctor's high medical skill.

Source: Tang Hanyu's "Understanding of Learning": "Jade Za Dan Sha, Red Arrow and Green Cheese, Cattle and Horses, the skin of a defeated drum, all of which are collected and stored, and those who are ready for use are also good doctors. "Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, often gave lectures to Tai students when he was in imperial academy for a drink offering, asking them to" be diligent in their work and be lazy; What is done is thought and destroyed. " At the same time, they are required to pay attention to social practice and be eclectic. "Cattle and horses" have their uses, encouraging students to strengthen their study and use them flexibly.

4. Ghosts and monsters

Explanation: the ghost in the head of a cow is the god in the body of a snake. Describe the works as illusory and grotesque. Metaphor is all kinds of bad guys.

Source: Preface to the Collection of Li He: "Whales suck and throw, and they are fantastic, which is not enough to be illusory."

5. Niu Yi is crying

Explanation: Wang Zhang, a student of Chang 'an, was sick, lying in Niu Yi, sobbing and saying goodbye to his wife. Later, he used the words "Cow clothes crying, Cow clothes crying at night, Cow clothes being quilt, King Zhang quilt, Cow clothes lying, Cow clothes sleeping, Cow clothes holding, Cow clothes crying, Cow clothes crying" to mean that the husband and wife are poor, or to describe the bleak state of poor people living in poverty.

source: allusions, idioms, and the biography of Wang Zhang in Hanshu.

The minority nationalities in China have the custom of offering condolences to the oxen, which is called "offering the ox king". Buyi people in Luodian, Anlong and other places in Guizhou celebrate the New Year with the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. On this day, let the cows have a rest and eat glutinous rice.