Save fire and drowning
Saving fire and drowning, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji Hu Zhen, which means to help people in trouble. The same as "saving the fire and drowning". It comes from Mencius · Liang Hui Wang by Zou mengke of Warring States period.
The origin of Idioms
In Mencius Liang Hui Wang written by Zou mengke in the Warring States period, it is said that "today Yan abused his people, and the king went to fight against them. The people thought that they would save themselves in the midst of fire and water, and the food pot would welcome the king's division."
Analysis of Idioms
Saving the fire and drowning
Idiom usage
To rescue a person in trouble is not a good thing, to debate right and wrong, and not a good thing to say. Wang Chong's Lun Heng Zi Ji in Han Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : jiù huǒ zhěng nì
Save fire and drowning
If you don't work hard when you are young, you will be sad when you are old. shào zhuàng bù nǔ lì,lǎo dà tú shāng bēi
prove successful in every test. lǚ shì lǚ yàn
not to distinguish black from white. zào bái bù fēn
Jade without polish is no tool. yù bù zhuó,bù chéng qì
have not enough for food and clothing. quē chī xhǎo chuān
benefit all the people in the world. jiān shàn tiān xià