Baozhushibing(bǎo zhū shì bǐng)

Baozhushibing

Baozhu market cake, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ ozh ū sh ì B ǐ ng, which means to exchange pearls for cakes, and means to stop greed. It comes from he Zhizhang, Yuanhua Ji.

The origin of Idioms

Huang Fu Duan of Tang Dynasty wrote "he Zhizhang, Yuanhua Ji:" he Zhizhang visited the old medicine seller, asked Huang Baizhu, and held a large pearl. The old man gets the Pearl, that is to say, Yibing and Heshi. The old man said, "if you don't get rid of stinginess, how can you make it?"

Idiom usage

Contraction type; used as predicate and attribute; refers to those who see through the world.

Idiom story

In the Tang Dynasty, he Zhizhang once paid a visit to an old medicine seller and asked him for advice from Huang Baizhu (alchemy), who specially sent a big pearl as a gift. When the old medicine seller got the jewel, he asked someone to sell it and give it back to he Zhizhang. He Zhizhang thought it was a pity, and the old king of medicine replied, "if you are stingy, how can you succeed?"

Chinese PinYin : bǎo zhū shì bǐng