incorrupt and generous(lián ér bù guì)

incorrupt and generous

Lian but GUI, a Chinese idiom, is Li á n é RB ú Gu ì. It means honest and generous. It comes from the book of rites.

Analysis of Idioms

Honest and generous

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites of the Western Han Dynasty, Dai Sheng said, "integrity without GUI is righteousness."

Idiom usage

It's formal; it's predicate and attribute; it's commendatory.

Idioms and allusions

As soon as the Empress Dowager Zhao was in power, the state of Qin rushed to attack Zhao. Empress Dowager Zhao appealed to Qi for help. Qi said: "we must use Chang'an Jun as a hostage to send reinforcements." The Empress Dowager refused to agree, and the ministers tried their best to persuade her. The Empress Dowager openly said to the left and right ministers, "if anyone dares to ask Chang'an Jun to be a hostage, I'll spit on his face!" Zuo Shilong went to see the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager waited for him angrily. Touching the dragon, he made a quick walk, moved his steps slowly, apologized to the Empress Dowager and said, "I have something wrong with my feet, but I can't run fast. I haven't come to see you for a long time. I forgive myself in private. I'm always worried about the discomfort of the empress dowager, so I want to visit you. " The Empress Dowager said, "I walk by chariot." Touch dragon to ask: "your daily diet should not reduce?" The Empress Dowager said, "just eat some porridge." "I don't want to eat much recently, but I just walk. I walk three or four miles every day, and then I slowly increase my appetite a little bit. I'm more comfortable," she said The Empress Dowager said, "I can't do it." The Empress Dowager's anger faded a little. Zuo Shi said, "my son Shu Qi is the youngest and not a good man. But I am old again. I love him in private and hope that he can make up for the vacancy of a guard in black to defend the palace. I risk my life to report to the Empress Dowager. " The Empress Dowager said, "yes. How old are you? " Touch dragon says: "15 years old. Although I'm still young, I hope I can entrust it to you before I get into the soil. " The Empress Dowager said, "do you men also love your little son?" Touch Dragon said: "more powerful than women." The Empress Dowager said with a smile, "women are more powerful." The Dragon answered, "I think privately that you love Yan more than you love Chang'an." The Empress Dowager said, "you are wrong. You are not as powerful as loving Mr. Chang'an." Zuo Shigong said: "if parents love their children, they have to think for them in the long run. When you send empress Yan to get married, you feel her heel and cry for her. It's a pity that she married far away. After she got married, you didn't miss her, but every time you offered sacrifices, you always prayed that you would never let her come back. Isn't this a long-term plan for Empress Yan, hoping that her descendants will become king one after another? " The Empress Dowager said, "that's right." Zuo Shigong said, "from this generation up to three generations ago, until the establishment of the state of Zhao, are there any successors of the descendants of the Marquis of the king of Zhao?" "No," said the Empress Dowager Touching the dragon, he said, "it's not only the state of Zhao, but also the descendants of other princes. Are there any descendants?" "I haven't heard of it," said empress dowager Zhao Zuo Shigong said: "among them, those who come early will come to themselves, and those who come late will come to their descendants. Are the descendants of the monarch necessarily not good? This is because they have high status but no merit, rich salary but no merit, but they possess too many treasures! Now you raise the status of Chang'an Jun very high, and grant him fertile land and many treasures, but don't let him do meritorious service for the country at this time. Once you are a hundred years later, why can Chang'an Jun stand in the state of Zhao? I think it's too short for you to plan for Chang'an Jun, so I think it's better for you to love him than empress Yan. " The Empress Dowager said, "well, you can appoint him." So he prepared a hundred cars for Chang'an Jun and sent him to the state of Qi as a hostage. Qi's rescuers were sent out.

Chinese PinYin : lián ér bù guì