Shan Ji Bian Feng Huang

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Shan Ji Bian Feng Huang
(A Pheasant Becoming a Phoenix)

During the Dong Zhou period, there was a hunter who caught a pheasant (Shan Ji). The hunter took the pheasant to the market place and it caught the eye of an honest scholar. When the scholar wanted to buy the pheasant, the hunter began to ask for more money claiming that the pheasant was a phoenix (Feng Huang). The honest scholar was very happy to have found a phoenix, who paid the hunter twenty talents of gold and he planned to offer the 'phoenix' to the emperor. Unfortunately, the pheasant died the following day and the scholar was heart-broken. The rumor that the scholar bought a phoenix, which died spread like wild fire. It soon reached the emperor who offered to pay the scholar for the 'phoenix', but the honest refused.

Applications: This phrase is often used to describe people who want to be someone who they are not. An example was the remark made by Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle, during the vice-presidential debate in 1988. Bentsen said, 'Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.' In Bentsen's mind Quayle was the pheasant and Kennedy was the phoenix, and a pheasant can never become a phoenix In Chinese Bentsen should have said, 'Senator, how can a Shan Ji Bian Feng Huang?'(bian means become).

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