This allusion comes from The Analects of Confucius and is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples during the Warring States Period. The full text is as follows:

Qi Wen Shao, I don't know the taste of meat in March. Yue: I don't want to be happy, but I also want to be happy.

After Confucius heard Shao's music in Qi, he couldn't feel the taste of meat after eating it for three months. Sighed: I didn't expect to hear Shao reach such a state!

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1. Allusions Background: Confucius sent an envoy to Qi, which is an orthodox place for music and communication. Just as the King of Qi held a grand ancestral temple sacrifice, Confucius personally attended the ceremony and listened to performances by Shao Le and Wu Le for three consecutive days.

Confucius, out of the belief in Confucian ethics, has a special liking for Shao music, playing the piano and singing all day long, and often dancing selflessly. For three months in a row, I sang repeatedly in my sleep; While eating, he was still trying to figure out the rhyme of less joy, so that even the taste of braised pork he always liked could not be tasted.

2. Use of allusions: Later generations often use the metaphor of "I don't know the taste of meat in March" to concentrate on one thing and forget other things. Now you can also use poverty to describe not eating meat for three months.

For this job, he hasn't eaten meat for three months and works all the time.

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