What are the fables about "the fishy eyes are mixed with the pearls"?

There is an idiom story about the fable of "the sham as the genuine". Once upon a time, I was willing to buy a pearl with a diameter of about one inch in the market. I liked it very much and hid it. Neighbor Shouliang found a big fish eye on the road, mistaking it for a pearl, and took it home for collection. Later, both of them got the same disease and needed pearl powder and medicinal materials to cure it. Longevity took out the eye that was thought to be a fish.

"Fish's eyes are mixed with pearls" is an idiom in China, which is pronounced as yúmúhún zhū and defined as fish; Mixed, confused, false. It means to confuse the fish with the pearls, and it is a metaphor to confuse the fake with the real, to confuse the fake with the real, and to shoddy. Describe only things, not people.

mix the spurious with the genuine

Explanation: fish: refers to the eyes of fish; Confusion: confusion, fraud. Imitate pearls with fisheyes. Metaphor is confusing the real with the fake. Generally describe things, not people.

Usage: Used as a derogatory term. Metaphor confuses truth and falsehood. Subject-predicate type; Generally used as predicate, attribute and adverbial.

Once upon a time, a man named Satisfied used all his money to buy a big pearl in an obscure shop in a desolate place. After returning home, he put the big pearl in a special box and kept it well. Only during the Spring Festival did he show it to some friends. Satisfaction has a neighbor named Shoushu, who has a big pearl at home and often wants to compare with satisfaction. But our ancestors had a legacy, and they couldn't show it easily, so they had to give it up. Soon, both of them got strange diseases and were bedridden. I have seen many doctors and taken many medicines, but my condition is still not getting better. One day, a traveling doctor who is said to be able to cure all kinds of intractable diseases came to the street. The two families invited them to their own homes respectively. After seeing the disease, the doctor said that the disease needs pearl powder combined with medicine to be completely cured. He left a prescription and hurried away. But I couldn't bear to damage that precious pearl, so I only took other medicines on the prescription; The medicine taken for longevity combines family pearl powder. Later, the doctor learned that he was very satisfied and did not take pearl powder. He went to have a look and found that his pearls were really rare treasures. The doctor looked at the long-lived pearls and said, "This is the eye of a big fish in the ocean. How can you treat a disease by mixing pearls with fish eyes? " No wonder, despite the use of "pearl powder", the disease of longevity has not been cured.

reference data

Bai Yang. The Qi of Tong Can, Volume 1. Unknown: unknown, Hanwei.