Love the rich and despise the poor(ài fù xián pín)

Love the rich and despise the poor

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is à if à Xi á NP í n, meaning dislike poverty and love wealth. It refers to people's likes and dislikes based on their wealth. It's from Peidu huandai.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: dislike the poor and love the rich antonym: kill the rich and help the poor

Idiom usage

People are greedy for money. Fang Tongdao is poor and lives in a busy city. Rich people have distant relatives in the mountains. Nowadays, people prefer the rich to the poor. The rise and fall of the rich and the poor

The origin of Idioms

The second part of Pei Du Huan Dai written by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty: "there are those children Cao generation who dislike the poor and love the rich, who chase me poor and arrogant, who pursue him rich, who are willing to sympathize with the lonely, who are willing to keep benevolence and righteousness."

Chinese PinYin : ài fù xián pín