闻鸡起舞出自唐代房玄龄等人编写的《晋书·祖逖传》：祖逖和好友刘琨同睡一室，「中夜闻荒鸡鸣，蹴琨觉曰：此非恶声也。因起舞」。半夜听到鸡叫，他踢醒刘琨，说这不是坏声音，两人就起身练剑。

The story comes from the biography of Zu Ti in the History of Jin, compiled in the Tang dynasty by Fang Xuanling and others. Zu Ti and his friend Liu Kun shared a room; hearing a rooster crow in the middle of the night, he nudged Liu Kun awake and said it was not an unlucky sound, and the two of them got up to practise with their swords.

祖逖后来率军北伐，渡长江时，他在江心敲着船桨发誓，一定要收复中原，这就是成语「中流击楫」的由来，同样出自《晋书·祖逖传》。他的好友刘琨也成了守卫北方的名将，两人一生都在为国家奔走。

Zu Ti later led an army north. As he crossed the Yangtze, he struck his oar in midstream and vowed to recover the Central Plains, the origin of another idiom, striking the oar in midstream, also from his biography in the History of Jin. His friend Liu Kun became a famous general defending the north, and both men spent their lives serving their country.

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