Looking at the cottage three times(máo lú sān gù)

Looking at the cottage three times

Sangu is a Chinese idiom pronounced m á ol ú s ā ng ù, which means that Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang three times in order to invite him. Later, the allusion was used to express the emperor's gratitude to his subordinates. It also refers to sincere invitation or visit. It's the same as "looking at the grass house three times". It comes from the ode to Chibi.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, the first fold of Wu Mingshi's Ode to Chibi: "if you don't want to go to orchid province to climb the northern Palace once, you want to visit Nanyang three times."

Analysis of Idioms

The grass house

Idiom usage

It refers to the pursuit of virtue

Examples

Why don't you hear that the Wei River is traveling with you, and when you look at the thatched cottage three times, the mountains and rivers are hanging wide, and you lose the ceremony of bowing. Tao Zongyi, Ming Dynasty

Idiom story

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. Zhuge Liang cultivated and ate his own food in the thatched cottage in Longzhong, but he was very learned and was called "Mr. Wolong". Xu Shu recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei went to WoLonggang to see Zhuge Liang in person. They didn't see Zhuge Liang for the first two times, and finally met Zhuge Liang for the third time. They sincerely invited Zhuge Liang out of the mountain

Chinese PinYin : máo lú sān gù