望门投止 / Wangmen Touzhi

Definition

Wangmen touzhi / 望门投止 is the idiom Hanji 895 ties to Zhang Jian’s flight: a desperate fugitive sees a household gate and seeks immediate shelter.

Current Synthesis

The idiom preserves the pressure of political pursuit, but Hanji 895 refuses to leave it as only a survival phrase. 张俭’s need to live is real, yet the sheltering chain exposes 孔融, 孔褒, and 孔融母 to lethal punishment. The phrase therefore belongs with 收留逃亡者的牵连风险 as much as with courage or refuge.

Key Claims

• The idiom foregrounds urgency: survival pressure can make any available household look like a temporary refuge.
• Its Hanji 895 use keeps the host side visible because Zhang Jian’s refuge implicates the Kong family after he escapes.
• The phrase can romanticize desperate trust if separated from Xia Fu’s criticism of collateral harm.
• Tan Sitong’s later allusion keeps the idiom available for broader political-persecution memory.

Evidence

• Origin scene: Hanji 895 explains the phrase through Zhang Jian’s flight and urgent search for shelter.
• Host exposure: Hanji 895 places the idiom after the Kong-family imprisonment and competing responsibility claims.
• Later memory: Hanji 895 cites Tan Sitong’s prison poem as a later reuse of the Zhang Jian and Du Gen contrast.

Counterevidence & Qualifications

This page records how Hanji 895 uses the idiom. It does not yet evaluate wider literary history, variants of the phrase, or whether every later use carries the same moral balance between refuge and collateral harm.

What Changed

• Initial concept created from Hanji 895’s idiom explanation and later Tan Sitong allusion.

Related Concepts

• 收留逃亡者的牵连风险 - the ethical mechanism behind the shelter-seeking scene.
• 危局抽身自保 - contrast with hiding that avoids old contact networks.
• 忠义牵连困境 - broader third-party cost frame.
• 安全第一政治生存 - survival-first lens for reading desperate refuge.
• 典故来源辨伪 - adjacent source-critical approach to idiom memory.