Looking north on behalf of the horse(dài mǎ wàng běi)

Looking north on behalf of the horse

Dai Ma Wangbei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à im à w à NGB à I, which means that people are attached to their hometown and do not want to die of old age. It comes from the theory of the hidden man, Shi Bian.

Analysis of Idioms

On behalf of Ma Yifeng

The origin of Idioms

In Wang Fu's on the hidden man, Shi Bian of the Han Dynasty: "and my wife moved again, yearning for the tomb, the same is true of both the virtuous and the unworthy." "To look north on behalf of the horse, the fox will die, and the people on the border will settle down and stay inside."

Idiom usage

It refers to yearning for hometown. Wang Jipei wrote: "the biography of ban Chao in the book of the later Han Dynasty says:" when a fox dies, he will replace Ma Yifeng. " In Wenxuan, Nineteen Ancient Poems, Li Shan quoted Han Shi waizhuan as saying: "the poem says: the horse is driven by the north wind, and the birds live in the nest." It's said that we don't forget our roots. "

Chinese PinYin : dài mǎ wàng běi