[Chinese Idioms And Fables] To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow

To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Blessing or Bane

Blessing or Bane

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell

Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Having Neither Learning Nor Skill

Having Neither Learning Nor Skill

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Keeping One's Word

Zeng Zi was Confucius's disciple. He was widely known for his filial obedience. One time his wife had to go to the market in a hurry. Her child wanted to go along and clung fast to her. "Listen to me," she coaxed the little boy. "I shan't be long. When I get back, I'll kill the pig for dinner." When she returned home, Zeng Zi sharpened his knife and set about to kill the pig. His wife immediately stopped him saying, "Don't take it seriously! I was just coaxing the child." Zeng Zi quickly drew his wife aside. "We must keep our word even with little children," he said. "Children don't know much. They learn from their parents and listen to what their parents teach them." "If you lie to him now, you're teaching him to lie later. And once you've lied to him, he will never believe you again. This is not the proper way to teach a child." Having said this, he killed the pig for dinner.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] It's never too late

Once an individual had a few sheeps.One morning, he found the one of them were lost.The Sheep pen was broken, and a wolf got it away last night. Neighbors gives and advice : "You must repair the hole . "He said :" The sheep has been lost. "He did not accept the advice of neighbors.The next morning, he found one more was lost.Wolves took away a sheep again.He regretted very much that he didn't accept the advice.He repaired that hole quickly.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] A promise that will be kept

In the end of the Qin dynasty, a person called Ji Bu in Chu country is straightforward, and chivalrous.As long as he promised , no matter how difficult, he is trying to do, everybody praises him.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] As virtue rises one foot, vice rises ten

This proverb tells us: although the attainments of Taoist priest rises one foot, the devil will tempt him. So it's easy to lose the attainments of the Taoist priest In addition, it also refers to righteous things that are not easy to strengthen, and the evil always want to destroy them. So we should be on guard against it.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Overrate power of oneself

This phrase is also known as "ambitious" or "overconfident"."used to describe not used their own strength properly, or overestimate themselves.

[Chinese Idioms And Fables] Keep Dignity against the poor life

In autumn of 405 AD,one of the Chinese earliest pastoral poets- Tao Yuanming., came to be a magistrate in the Pengze county near his hometown in order to feed their families.In the winter, a inspector who is vulgar and arrogant came to Pengze County .As soon as he got to the boarding houses, he asked magistrate of the county to see him.Tao Yuanming look down the fame and fortune of such people, but it has no choice but to go, so he immediately came.Unexpectedly the officer stopped Tao Yuanming and said : "Your honor, please wear well and go, or you will be disadvantaged ! "Tao Yuanming could not stand any more.He deep sigh and said : "I can not bend over backward to five dou of rice to the village curs! "With these words, he sealed the signet,and immediately wrote a letter of resignation, then left the Pengze County in only eighty days.