An ancient man holding a hip flask and another ancient man touching his head are fables that gild the lily.

To gild the lily comes from the idiom in the Warring States Policy written by Liu Xiang, a writer in the Western Han Dynasty, "Those who have a shrine in Chu will be given wine as a sacrifice. Others say, several people don't have enough to drink, and one person has enough to drink. Please draw a snake, and the first one will drink. One snake comes first, leading wine and drinking it, holding it in the left hand and drawing a snake in the right hand, I can do it. Before it's done, one man's snake becomes a success, and if he takes it away, the snake is not enough, but Zi An can be enough. Then drink its wine. He who is a snake's foot will eventually die of his wine The metaphor of doing something superfluous is not only useless, but also inappropriate. It is also a metaphor for fictional facts.