Is "俎板の上の鯉" related to the Vietnamese phrase "như cá nằm trên thớt"?


Is the Japanese phrase "俎板の上の鯉" - [a carp laid on a chopping
block](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/162539/are-there-
metaphoric-english-expressions-meaning-keeping-composure-at-a-fatal-m) related
to the Vietnamese phrase "như cá nằm trên thớt" - [like a fish on cutting
board](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/246575/what-is-the-english-
version-of-the-vietnamese-idiom-nh%C6%B0-c%C3%A1-n%E1%BA%B1m-tr%C3%AAn-
th%E1%BB%9Bt-li), either because Japanese got the phrase from Vietnamese,
Vietnamese got the phrase from Japanese, or the two languages got it from a
third language?




I don't have any clue to decide whether it's a parallel evolution or not, but
I guess it's from Chinese, considering the phrase is attested in a famous (1st
century BC) Classical Chinese literature, namely _Shiji_ , and the fact all
Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese shares the similar expressions.

> 大行不顧細謹，大禮不辭小讓。如今 **人方為刀俎，我為魚肉** ，何辭為。  
>  _The most powerful never mind small matters; the most polite never care
> about small etiquette. Now **they are knife and chopping block, we are fish
> in between** , why need we say goodbye?_  
>  （[史記・項羽本紀](http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&id=4869)）

* * *

> Chinese: 俎上之鱼，任人宰割  
>  Japanese: まな板の（上の）鯉  
>  Korean: 도마에 오른 고기  
>  Vietnamese: như cá nằm trên thớt




I don't have any clue to decide whether it's a parallel evolution or not, but
I guess it's from Chinese, considering the phrase is attested in a famous (1st
century BC) Classical Chinese literature, namely _Shiji_ , and the fact all
Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese shares the similar expressions.

> 大行不顧細謹，大禮不辭小讓。如今 **人方為刀俎，我為魚肉** ，何辭為。  
>  _The most powerful never mind small matters; the most polite never care
> about small etiquette. Now **they are knife and chopping block, we are fish
> in between** , why need we say goodbye?_  
>  （[史記・項羽本紀](http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&id=4869)）

* * *

> Chinese: 俎上之鱼，任人宰割  
>  Japanese: まな板の（上の）鯉  
>  Korean: 도마에 오른 고기  
>  Vietnamese: như cá nằm trên thớt

