中文拼音： Ying3 shu1 Yan1 shuo1

中文繁体： 郢書燕說

英文翻译： lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it/fig. to misinterpret the original meaning/to pile up errors/refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"