house of a poor man(bì mén guī dòu)

house of a poor man

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ì m é NGU ī D ò u, meaning that it is often used to refer to the poor living room. It's from fear of shame for a gentleman.

Analysis of Idioms

Guidou

The origin of Idioms

Chen Liang of the Song Dynasty wrote in his book "be afraid of being ashamed of being a gentleman" that "this husband should perform his own way, and he should not be punished by writing, but by cutting between the boudoir and the boudoir."

Idiom usage

It is used as object and attribute to describe the accommodation of the poor. In the book of Wei, biography of Yi Shi, Li Mi, it is said that "the room of Sheng Shu, the room of Weng GUI, the hall of GUI Dou, is not the case." In the tenth year of Xiangxi in Zuozhuan, it is said that all the people of guidou are on the top of it In the book of rites, the Confucian School of thought: "Piper gate, guidou, Penghu, Weng GUI. I can't help but wonder. Unexpectedly, there are such sensible women in this family. The 34th chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : bì mén guī dòu