滥竽充数 | làn yú chōng shù | lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products; to masquerade as having an ability; token member of a group | |
滥竽 | làn yú | indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification); see 滥竽充数 | |
吹竽手 | chuī yú shǒu | player of the yu 竽 (free reed wind instrument) |
1 | Once , there was an old king . He liked listening to Yu(a Chinese traditional instrument) very much , and he liked to let the players play together . | |
2 | King Min also enjoyed listening to the yu. Unlike his father, he preferred listening to the musicians playing solo. | |
3 | On Apr 07, 2007, Beijing China, a street artist playing a musical instrument called "Xu" in the underground passage. | |
4 | He would order 300 musicians at a time to play the Yu for him. | |
5 | The king treated his musician very well. A man named Nanguo heard about that and he managed to become a member of the band, even though he wan not good at playing the instrument at all. |