Take the lead(dēng fēng lǚ rèn)

Take the lead

Stepping on the edge, pronounced D ē NGF ē NGL ǚ R è n, is a Chinese idiom, which is interpreted as stepping on the edge of the sword, and refers to rushing to the front. It comes from the biography of Yuan Shaozhuan in the later Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Step on the edge of the sword. It is a metaphor for rushing to the front.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan Shaozhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "all the generals who went to the general's school led them to live in virtue in the Qing Dynasty. They made their names prominent and took the lead. More than half of them died."

Chinese PinYin : dēng fēng lǚ rèn