keep his wife and children in mind on his deathbed(fēn xiāng mài lǚ)

keep his wife and children in mind on his deathbed

Fen Xiang sell shoes, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē nxi ā n ɡ m à IL ǚ, which means that in the old days, it refers to people who never forget their wives and children when they are dying. It comes from the legacy order.

The origin of Idioms

In the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's Yiling said, "Yu Xiang can be separated from the ladies, but not sacrificed. There is nothing to do in all the houses, so you can learn how to organize and sell. "

Idiom usage

He never forgets his wife and concubine when he is dying. Also describes the hegemony has been empty, romantic has dispersed, with nostalgia. The poem Du qiuniang written by Du Mu in Tang Dynasty: "the rising day of Xianchi is celebrated, and the bronze sparrow is fragrant and sad." It also refers to making a living skillfully and being self-sufficient. The poem "Ye City" written by Luo Yin of Tang Dynasty: "heroes also go to the place where incense is distributed, and how many ordinary people can be shared." In Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao's "preface to jinshilu": "taking the pen and writing poems, the last one will come to an end, but there is no sense of selling shoes and fragrance." Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the strange tales of a lonely studio, Zhu Weng: "if you respect and broaden your skills, you can sell your shoes and make a cent of them, and you can do nothing." check carefully the poem "Cao Cao suspected grave": "divide incense and sell shoes, only hurt the spirit, song blowing sound in the account of Chen." In Lu Zhiyi's Fu on reading history, he said, "the empress had pity on all the women, and finally she was a person who sold her shoes and fragrance."

Idioms and allusions

According to the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's Yiling: "my maidservant and concubine are diligent, making tongquetai, and treating it well. On the first day of the month and the fifteenth day of the month, from the morning to the afternoon, they often played tricks in the tent. From time to time you climb the Tongque terrace and look at the tomb field of my Western mausoleum. The remaining fragrance can be divided into the ladies, not sacrificing. There is nothing to do in all the houses, so you can learn how to organize and sell. " Cao Cao's "legacy order" said: my maidservant concubine and song and dance artists are very hard, let them live in tongquetai (the site is in the Yecheng site, 20 kilometers southwest of Linzhang County, Hebei Province today), make good arrangements for them, put a six foot bed on the main hall, hang a spiritual tent, offer food in the morning and evening, and sing and dance music to the tent from morning to noon on the first and 15th days of each month. You should always go up to the bronze sparrow terrace and visit the cemetery of my Xiling mausoleum. The rest of the incense can be given to the ladies without sacrificing. People in each room have nothing to do. They can learn to make belts and sell shoes. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao built a bronze sparrow platform. On his deathbed, he told his concubines, "you always climb the platform and look at the tomb field of my Western mausoleum." "Yu Xiang can be divided into the ladies. If you don't do anything in your house, you can learn how to do it and sell it. " See the preface of Jin Luji's Diao Wei Wudi Wen. Later, he used "selling shoes with fragrance" to describe that he would never forget his wife and concubine when he died.

Chinese PinYin : fēn xiāng mài lǚ