Nine year savings(jiǔ nián zhī xù)

Nine year savings

Nine year savings, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ǔ Ni á nzh ī x ù, meaning that the country usually has savings in case of emergency. It comes from the book of rites, the king system.

Idiom explanation

To accumulate or store. Nine years of reserves.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of rites, the system of Kings: "a country without nine years' savings is called insufficient; a country without six years' savings is called urgent; a country without three years' savings is not a country."

Idiom usage

As an object; of reserve. I heard that a country is not a country if it has no nine-year savings. I want to cover all the fields of the world and balance its Fu. History of the Jin Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : jiǔ nián zhī xù