wear red or white , that is , at weddings or funerals(hóng bái xǐ shì)

wear red or white , that is , at weddings or funerals

Red and white wedding, Chinese words, Pinyin is h ó NGB á IX ǐ sh ì, which means red refers to marriage and birthday, white refers to funeral, and together it is red and white wedding. It comes from Yang Jingting's Ode to the capital gate, fashion gate and Zhidan in Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Yang Jingting, Qing Dynasty, wrote: "it's not easy to stay at home in Chang'an, so be frugal and hold a bow to be lenient. I'm afraid of the red and white affairs of human relations, so it's difficult for the Zhidan to arrive."

Idioms and allusions

When Chuang Tzu's wife died, Hui Tzu hanged him, while Chuang Tzu sang in a drum basin. Huizi said, "it's enough to live with the eldest son, to die without crying. It's also enough to sing with a drum." Chuang Tzu said, "No. It's the beginning of death. How can I be free! When we look at the beginning, we can see that there is no life, that there is no life, that there is no form, and that there is no Qi. Mixed between mang fluorene, change and have gas, gas change and visible, deformation and have life, now change and death, is phase with spring and autumn, winter and summer four seasons also. People sleep in a huge room, but I cry because I think it's impossible to live. Zhuangzi's wife died, Huizi went to express his condolence, but Zhuangzi was sitting like a dustpan, beating wa fou and singing. Huizi said, "you have lived with your dead wife all your life. You have children until you grow old and die. If you don't cry when you die, it's OK. It's not too much to sing songs with wa fou." Chuang Tzu said, "No. How can I not feel sad when she first died! However, when we carefully examine her, we can see that she was not born, not only was not born, but also had no body, not only had no body, but also had no vitality. Mingled in the trance realm, change brings vitality, vitality brings form, and form brings life. Now change returns to death, just like the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The person who died will sleep in peace between heaven and earth, but I sobbed around her and thought that I could not understand the destiny, so I stopped crying. " This is the origin of the folk simple "red and white wedding".

Chinese PinYin : hóng bái xǐ shì