Zhilan Yushu: During the Jin Dynasty, Taifu Xie'an asked the sons, "You always play here, do you know what kind of person you will become in the future?" Everyone was speechless, but General Xie Xuan replied, "In the future, I will stand like Zhilan Yushu in front of the High Hall."
See Book of Jin. Biography of Xie An". Later it was compared to talent. clear. Chen Duansheng wrote in the first volume of "The Edge of Regeneration": "The wealth and glory of the world are exhausted, and the Zhilan Yushu qi is under the knee." Hulu is like this: In the early years of the Song Dynasty, Tao Gu, a scholar of Hanlin, advised Song Taizu to attach importance to writing work.
Zhao Kuangyin thought that the writing work was just copying, just like drawing a gourd. Tao Gu did not achieve his goal, and inscribed a poem on the wall of his home, "Hanlin Tao Bachelor, who still draws gourds every year." ”
See Qing. Zhou Lianggong's Book Shadow Volume III. Later, the metaphor was just imitation, lack of creation. Guo Moruo in the Collected Works of Literature and Art. Criticism and Dreams records: "Only if we are not heavenly, but only the gourd is like us, then we cannot but have much academic preparation."