Fried bean and melon(jiān dòu zhāi guā)

Fried bean and melon

Frying beans and picking melons is a Chinese idiom, which refers to the fratricidal relationship between relatives.

[explanation] it refers to the mutilation of relatives. [source] it is used to describe the relationship between relatives and each other. Fried beans, the language of the Three Kingdoms Wei Cao Zhi "seven step poem": "boiled beans burning Osmunda It's too urgent to fry each other. " Picking melons, the language out of Tang Lixian "Huangtai melon words": "three picking still can be, pick absolutely embrace vine." [example] or brothers fight for the country, ~, and Jianwen's benevolence is changed from jinchuanmen to monk. In Chapter 6 of the book of great harmony by Kang Youwei, it is used as predicate, object and attribute, with derogatory meaning, and refers to the relationship between relatives and the disabled. [synonym] self mutilation, fratricidal

Chinese PinYin : jiān dòu zhāi guā