resign from office and live in seclusion(guà guān guī qù)

resign from office and live in seclusion

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu à Gu ā NGU ī Q ù, meaning resigning home. It comes from the biography of Fengmeng in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Guan: hat, here refers to the official hat. Take off the official hat and hang it up. It's like resigning and going home.

The origin of Idioms

"When Wang Mang killed his son Yu, Meng called his friend and said," the three cardinal guides are unique! If you don't go, the disaster will come. That is to say, they will return to the capital gate and float their families to the sea and visit Liaodong. "

Idiom usage

It is a metaphor for resigning an official and going home. He was so angry that Peng Jiaoyu brushed his clothes away and went back. Ming natural old man "stone nodded Hou Guan County martyr annihilation revenge.".

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: resign and return to seclusion. antonym: a comeback.

Idioms and allusions

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang's son, Wang Yu, worried that Wang Mang had too many enemies, offered blood admonition and was killed by Wang Mang. Feng Meng saw Wang Mang's intention and thought that such a king was not worthy of loyalty. So he took off his black hat and hung it outside the east gate of the capital city. He quietly left the capital city and fled to Liaodong with his family.

Chinese PinYin : guà guān guī qù