It is said that a light breeze blew unexpectedly and made the full moon hide behind the clouds when Diao Chan, a geisha at official Wang yun’s ,was praying to the moon in the back garden during the Three Kingdoms period. Wang Yun, who had seen this scene, told everybody he met that Diao Chan was so beautiful that even the moon hid behind the cloud when it saw her. So Diao Chan was also called ” making the full moon hide behind the clouds”thereafter.
In Western Han Dynasty，Empire Han and Hun in the north were at war. In order to make peace and keep good relationship with Hun, Emperor Yuan selected Zhaojun as a wife for ChanYu of the Hun. One balmy autumn day, Zhaojun bid a farewell to her hometown and set out to the north. She felt so sad and couldn’t help playing the Pi-Pa while she heard the whinnying of the horses and the honking of the wild geese on the road. The wild geese flying to the south forgot to fly and fell down to the land when it heard the sweet-sound of the music played by Zhaojun and saw the beautiful girl on the horse as well. So Zhaojun was also called “making flying geese fall”
There was a beautiful girl named Yang Yuhuan who was selected into the palace in Tang Dynasty. She missed home very much after her entering the palace. One day, She took a walk in the garden and felt distressed when she saw the peonies and roses were all in blossom. She said sadly to the flowers: “Flowers, flowers, you open every year but when will my good time come? And the flowers shrank instantly when she touched them. So she is also called “making flowers feel shameful”
During the Spring and Autumn period there was an extremely pretty girl named Xi Shi in the ancient state of Yue. One day she was washing the yarns beside the river. Her shadow seemed very attracting on the surface of the clear river. The fishes in that river forgot to swim when they caught the sight of her beautiful shadow and sank down to the bottom of the river. Thus Xi Shi’s new name “ making swimming fish sink” was popular from then on.
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