a woman of low birth may marry into the purple
Husband's honor and wife's nobleness is a Chinese idiom, pronounced f ū R ó ngq ī Gu ì, which means that husband's glory and wife's dignity rise. It's from the funeral dress.
Analysis of Idioms
The husband is the wife
The origin of Idioms
"The husband is respected by the court, and the wife is more valuable than the room," according to funeral clothes
Idiom usage
Everyone said: "auspicious and gorgeous, foretold number one scholar, Congratulations, congratulations." The eighth chapter of Zeng Pu's the flowers of the evil sea in Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : fū róng qī guì
a woman of low birth may marry into the purple