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Year: 208, The Three Kingdom Period
Location: Chi Bi, Yangtse River
General Yanghunzi is facing the greatest challenge in his military
career. This time he has to defend Kingdom Wu against the ten time
stronger enemy.
Chief of the General Staff Shudaizi wrote a Huo (fire) character
in his hand and showed it to the General. The General got the idea
immediately.
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| Fire attack! |
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| From then on, this story has been always
used for describing one's inspiring and mysterious friend. For example,
you can say, "you're my real friend, just like the Chief of the General
Staff in the Chi Bi Fire Attack!" |
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Year: 1986
Location: Final Term Examination Classroom, The Peking Academy of
Colloquial Chinese
The final term examination is crucial to a student's life. The
score is all that really matters to evaluate the student's performance.
During the exam, Yanghunzi encountered a very difficult
grammar question...
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Yanghunzi
whispering for help from his classmate Shudaizi. |
| Yanghunzi's whisper is so low and so
unintelligible. Being Yanghunzi's all time inspiring friend, Shudaizi
doesn't want to show any hesitance in helping him. So he tried the
ancient Chinese magic again... |
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