Save the burning and drowning(jiù fén zhěng nì)

Save the burning and drowning

Saving people from burning and drowning is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ji ù f é nzh ě NGN ì, which means saving people from fire and water. It describes emergency rescue for people in trouble. From Lun Heng Zi Ji.

Analysis of Idioms

Save the fire and drown

The origin of Idioms

In Wang Chong's Lun Heng Zi Ji of the Han Dynasty, it is said that "to save the fire and drown, righteousness is not good, right and wrong are debated, and words are not skillful."

Idiom usage

It refers to helping people in trouble. Jing said: "the teacher of the king is the one who keeps the law. Since the people were driven, they refused to fight? And the dog barking is not its master, and there is no room for treason. Therefore, Kuai Tong avoided killing the Han ancestors. The newly established Jing and Ying should be magnanimous and magnanimous, so as to comfort the near and far heart. It may not be the meaning of saving the fire and drowning. But I'm afraid that since then, I've been in the South Town, and I can't stick to it. It's not a good idea. " The biography of Li Jing in the old book of the Tang Dynasty is a very timely choice for all the people. When they arrive in Sichuan, they will be able to defend the people. In Guo Xiaocheng's "the restoration of Yunnan Province" and "the book of Zhou" (Volume IV and V). The biography of scholars and Xiong Ansheng), "Qi's taxes and labor flourished and exhausted people's financial resources. I'm going to save the fire and drown, and I'm going to reform its disadvantages. In the book of Sui, Volume 47, biography of Liu Ji, it is not the wish of the government and the public to cover the fire and save the drowning. 」

Chinese PinYin : jiù fén zhěng nì