Qionglai Dialect Fortune-telling _ Qionglai Folk Custom

Where does the phrase "not a fuel-efficient lamp" come from?

The proverb "not a fuel-efficient lamp" has been widely circulated in China's literary works, spoken language, film and television works and audio-visual works, and it is very popular in China's east, west, north and south, with a high frequency and a wide range of applications. Its meaning is also clear and well known, and the general idea is extraordinary but not simple.

If someone is' not a fuel-efficient lamp', compliment means being smart, capable, well-founded, well-informed, full of ideas and high wisdom;

This language is derogatory in most cases, implying that someone is scheming, cunning, wily, difficult to deal with, unwilling to be lonely, never suffering, always harming others and benefiting themselves, and so on.

We don't know when the phrase' not a fuel-efficient lamp' originated, but it originated from the fuel-efficient oil lamp invented by Qiong Yao in the Tang Dynasty, which is really obvious and beyond doubt. The provincial oil lamp originated from Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. When Lu You lived in Sichuan, he was the director of Dojo in Tiantai Mountain in Qiongzhou. Among the poems he recited, there are as many as 22 poems about Qionglai, and he is also familiar with Qiong Yao's oil lamp. Therefore, Lu Fangweng's description of Qiong Yao oil lamp is not only true and credible, but also the glory of "saving oil lamp" has spread all over the country through the fame of Lu Fangweng. It is precisely because of Lu You's admiration and propaganda that Qiong Yao's production technology of "oil lamp saving" has spread to the whole country, making porcelain kilns all over the country compete for imitation. When the "oil lamp saving" was generally recognized by the people of the whole country, people had the concepts of "oil lamp saving" and "oil lamp saving" from then on.