show filial respect for parents(lǎo lái yú qīn)

filial

The synonym laolaiyuqin generally refers to amusing parents with colorful clothes. The Chinese idiom, pronounced x ì C ǎ iy ú Q ī n, means that Laolaizi in the late spring and Autumn Period wore colorful clothes to amuse his parents. It comes from Yi Wen Lei Ju, biography of filial piety among women.

The origin of Idioms

It is said that in the spring and Autumn period, Lao laizi of the state of Chu was filial to his relatives. He was 70 years old and often wore colorful clothes for baby play. Go to the court, deliberately fall to win parents a smile "The filial piety of Laolaizi is to amuse his relatives by playing with color," says the second volume of the book "children's learning from qionglin."

Idioms and allusions

Lao laizi, a hermit of Chu state in the spring and Autumn period, cultivated in the southern foot of Mengshan Mountain in order to avoid the chaos. He is filial to his parents and devotes himself to delicious food. He is still 70 years old. He often wears colorful clothes and plays with a rattle like a child to make his parents happy. Once he was delivering water to his parents and pretended to fall when he came into the house, so he imitated the "Wuwu" sound of a child's crying, and the elder two laughed.

Chinese PinYin : lǎo lái yú qīn