as states of lips and teeth
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ú NCH ǐ zh ī B ā ng, which means that lips and teeth store and depend on each other. It means that both sides are closely related and share interests. It comes from the biography of Bao Xun.
Idiom explanation
Idiom: the land of lips and teeth. It refers to the close relationship between the two sides and the common interests.
source
According to the biography of Bao Xun in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "those who failed to overcome Wang Shi's repeated efforts are closely related to Wu and Shu, and they are difficult to pull out because they obstruct the mountains and rivers."
Examples
Sun Quan and I have to help each other. The sixty second chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty
usage
It refers to the close relationship between countries
Chinese PinYin : chún chǐ zhī bāng
as states of lips and teeth
Cherish the new and discard the old. lián xīn qì jiù
i was putting on my clothes upside down. diān dǎo yī cháng
with steady progress from day to day and from month to month. rì jiù yuè jiāng
in one 's seventies and eighties. qī lǎo bā dǎo