look down money and powerful status
Fu Yun Fu Gui is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is f ú y ú NF ù Gu ì, which means to regard wealth as a floating cloud. It means to treat money and status lightly. From the Analects of Confucius.
Idiom usage
It's true that a man who has attached great importance to famous people all his life and thought that nothing can be avoided has met an iron monarch today.
Analysis of Idioms
Rich as clouds
The origin of Idioms
"The Analects of Confucius:" unjust and rich and expensive, to me like floating clouds. "
Idiom explanation
Floating clouds: floating clouds. Think of wealth as a floating cloud. It's a metaphor to treat money and status lightly.
Idiom story
In the spring and Autumn period, when Confucius led his disciples to travel around the world and arrived in Wei again, the political situation of Wei changed greatly. The Duke of Wei expelled his father and ascended the throne. The doctor Kong Zhen took out a pile of gold coins to ask Confucius to name Wei justly, saying that the Duke of Wei was right. Confucius felt insulted, saying that wealth and money were like clouds in the air to him.
Chinese PinYin : fú yún fù guì
look down money and powerful status
the sea and sky are boundless. hǎi kuò tiān gāo
feel dizzy and with one 's eyesight dimmed. tóu hūn yǎn àn
the blood of loyal courtiers who die unjustly become jasper. cháng hóng huà bì
make a deaf man and a blind man see. fā méng zhèn kuì
Eating jade and cooking gold. zhuàn yù chuī jīn
a man of no common appearance and very noble in his looks. yī biǎo fēi sú