a man of scholarly virtue(huái jǐn wò yú)

a man of scholarly virtue

Huaijin Zhuoyu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin Hu á ij ǐ NW ò y ú, means that people have pure and noble moral character. It comes from Huaisha, the ninth chapter of songs of Chu.

Notes on Idioms

Huai: huaizang; grip: hand; Jin, Yu: Meiyu, a metaphor for virtue.

The origin of Idioms

Huaisha, the ninth chapter of the songs of Chu written by Chu Quyuan in the Warring States Period: Huaijin holds Yu, but she is poor and does not know what to show.

Idiom usage

As the subject and predicate, it refers to people's noble character. Sima Qian's biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng: Why did Huaijin grasp Yu and let him be? He was anxious to ask for treatment and subdue his mind to the following sages. However, Huaijin, a scholar, who grasped Yu, came from many different places and went to work for himself. Chao Buzhi's "chicken ribs collection" in Song Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : huái jǐn wò yú