In Chinese Warring States period, the king of state Qi was a music lover. He extramely liked the ensemble of Yu, a wind instrument made of bamboo and wood. As a result, he employed more than 300 well-paid Yu players from different states to form his royal band. A man named Nan Guo, learning of this, passed him off as a Yu player and became a member of the band, even though he was not good at playing the instrument at all.
Everyday the king called in his band to play for the him and his ministers in the palace. And the grand music
pleased him very much. But he did not know that one of his player, Mr. Nan Guo, was not making any sound at all. All he did was only sitting in the line and pretending to be playing Yu together with the others. He had never been exposed.
Mr. Nan Guo went on very well with his tricks until the old king died and his son succeeded to the throne. The new king was a Yu lover too, but he perfered solo to ensemble. He ordered the musicians to play Yu in front of him one by one. Realizing there was no place for him any more, Mr. Nan Guo run out of Qi.
Writer Comment:
This story is from the Nei Chu Shang, a article of Han Fei Zi, in which the author advised rulers to listen to the opinion of everybody, and not to be cheated by the seeming harmony.
Now the idiom of Lan Yu Chong Shu--Be There Just To Make Up The Number is often used to describe the case in which the spurious is mixed with the genuine. But sometime, you can also hear people saying it about themselves to show their modesty.
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