To gnaw one's fingers with one's arm(è bì niè zhǐ)

To gnaw one's fingers with one's arm

搤搤, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è B ì Ni è zh ǐ, which means that the most filial person and his parents feel each other. From Lun Heng Gan Xu.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty wrote in Lun Heng Gan Xu: "Zengzi gave his salary to the wild, and some guests came and wanted to go. Zeng's mother said: "the original stay, the ginseng to." That is to say, the left arm is touched with the right hand. Tseng Tzu's pain in his left arm made him rush to ask his mother, "why does it hurt?" My mother said, "today's guests come and go. I call your ears with my arms." The biography of Zhou pan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "Cai Shun, Pan Tong County Taste the salary, there are guests to, mother hope Shun not also, but bite its finger. Shun is the heart, abandon salary Chi return, kneel to ask its reason. My mother said, "if an urgent guest comes, I will bite my finger to understand your ears."

Idiom usage

The ancient filial son is not empty language. Qian Qianyi, Qing Dynasty, the epitaph of Kejun, the official of Ningfu, Fujian Province

Chinese PinYin : è bì niè zhǐ