White sand is in Nirvana, black with it(bái shān zài niè，yǔ zhī jù hēi)

White sand is in Nirvana, black with it

White sand is in Nirvana, black with it. It's a Chinese idiom.

The white sand is in Nirvana, and is black with it.

[Pinyin] B á ISH ā Z à ini è, y ǔ zh ī J ù h ē I

[interpretation] Sha: Tongsha. Nirvana: mineral, alunite dyed black. White fine sand mixed in black soil will not turn black together with it. If it is washed in water, it will still turn white. However, white "yarn" and alunite together, will be dyed with other colors (alunite is not pure black, it has a little gray black), and can not be washed out.

It means that a good person or thing in a filthy environment will get worse with the filthy environment.

Idiom explanation

B á ISH ā Z à ini è, y ǔ zh ī J ù h ē i. White fine sand mixed in black soil will also turn black with it. It means that a good person or thing in a filthy environment will get worse with the filthy environment.

Idioms and allusions

[source] Xunzi's persuasion: "the white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black with it."

Discrimination of words

He who is close to Zhu is red, and he who is close to Mo is black. [antonym] out of the mud but not stained. [grammar] complex sentence; participle; derogatory.

Xunzi correlation

Xunzi (about 313-238 BC), whose name is Kuang and the word is Qing, is of the Han nationality. He is also known as Sunqing because he avoids the taboo of emperor Xuandi of the Western Han Dynasty and has the same ancient pronunciation as "Xun" and "sun". At the end of the Warring States period in the Zhou Dynasty, Zhao people were born. He is a famous thinker, writer, politician and one of the representatives of Confucianism. He once served as a sacrificial wine in the imperial palace of Qi Guoji three times, and later served as an order of Chu Lanling (now Shandong Lanling). Xunzi developed Confucianism and advocated the theory of evil nature, which is often compared with Mencius' theory of good nature. It also contributed to the reorganization of Confucian classics. As the opening work of Xunzi, quanxue is a prose which discusses the significance of learning and persuades people to learn with correct purpose, attitude and method. This is a very reasonable text. If it is not well controlled, it is easy to become dull and monotonous. The image of this article is fresh and popular, and it has been handed down for hundreds of years. Why? The most important thing is that it contains profound principles in a large number of simple and appropriate metaphors. When using metaphors, the techniques are extremely flexible, natural, vivid and not pedantic. For example, at the beginning of the article, five metaphors such as "green, take it from the blue, and green from the blue" are used to explain the truth of "learning can not be done" from different angles and sides. It can be called an eloquent genius, eloquent, and has received a strong effect of preemption.

Chinese PinYin : bái shān zài niè，yǔ zhī jù hēi