bind the feet with a red rope -- to be united in wedlock(chì shéng jì zú)

bind the feet with a red rope -- to be united in wedlock

The Chinese idiom, CH ì sh é NGJ ì Z ú, refers to the marriage of a man and a woman through the introduction of a matchmaker. It comes from Li Fuyan's record of continued mysteries.

The origin of Idioms

Li Fuyan of Tang Dynasty wrote in his xuxuanguai Lu: "when you ask what is in the bag, you say:" red rope ear! Although the enemy's family is separated from the noble and the humble, the end of the world is from the official, and Wu and Chu are in a foreign land, this rope can never be tied up. "

Idiom usage

From the point of view, the old man under the moon is tied up, although thousands of miles away, in the end, they match. (Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty, Volume 5 of "the surprise of making a case at the beginning of carving"

Idiom story

Wei Gu, a boy in ancient duling, met an old man sitting on the ground with a red cloth bag on the road one day. He felt strange and asked the old man. The old man said that he was in charge of the world's marriage. The red rope in the bag was used to tie the couple's feet together. No matter how far apart they were, they would eventually come together. If they broke, the couple would be separated.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: red rope with feet

Chinese PinYin : chì shéng jì zú