A narrow and winding path means a mountain road. From Tang Xuanzong's "Climbing Taihang Mountain Early to Express Ambition": "The fire dragon is bright and the bird's path is bright, and the iron cavalry encircles the sheep's intestines." The sheep's intestines path originally meant to be a winding and narrow road like the sheep's intestines, and now it is mostly used to describe the rugged and narrow mountain road.
The meaning of a narrow path
A winding path like a sheep intestines. It mostly refers to winding and narrow mountain roads.
Idioms related to sheep
1. Strive for the chicken and lose the sheep: It means to be greedy and lose the big.
2. Bird's path: It describes a narrow, winding and steep mountain road.
3. Crowds of sheep flock into tigers: It means that good people fall into the hands of bad people and are in extreme danger.
4. Exchange sheep for cattle: replace. Replace cattle with sheep. The metaphor uses this instead of another.
5. Lamb wine: Lamb is the name of wine, which is named because lamb is included in the brewing materials. Good wine with mellow taste.
6. Yangchangjiuqu: Yangchang is like a winding path. Nine bends are places with many twists and turns, referring to the twists and turns of the river course. It describes rugged paths and winding rivers. It also refers to the difficulty of the road.
7. The sheep have been eaten by the tiger. It is a metaphor that it is hard to escape from danger. Also known as "sheep entering the tiger's mouth".
8. Ask the sheep to know the horse: It means to infer from the side and find out the truth.
9. Drive the sheep against the tiger: Drive is to drive. Drive the sheep to attack the tiger. It is said that the weak enemy is strong, and there is a great disparity in strength, and it will be destroyed.
Fables about sheep
Shepherds and wild goats. When a shepherd was herding in the pasture, he found several wild goats mixed with the sheep. In the evening, he drove all the sheep into the sheepfold. Since the next day there was a storm and he could not graze in the pasture, he fed the sheep in the sheepfold. He fed his own sheep a little food, only enough to keep them from hunger, but he gave a lot of food to those foreign wild goats, thinking of taking them as his own.
When the wind stopped and the rain stopped, the shepherd drove all the sheep to the pasture. When they reached the foot of the mountain, all the wild goats fled. The shepherd accused them of being ungrateful and getting preferential treatment, but still wanted to leave him. The wild goat then turned around and said, "That's why we are more cautious! Because you treat us specially, but you treat your own sheep too coldly. Obviously, if we choose to stay, when other wild goats come in the future, we will be treated like your sheep."