become aware of one 's errors and turn back from one 's wrong path
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m í é RZH ī f ǎ n, meaning to know to come back after getting lost. Metaphor can be corrected if it has a fault. It comes from the book of the Song Dynasty, biography of the two evildoers, Shao yuanxiong.
The origin of Idioms
"Song Shu · biography of the two evildoers · yuanxiongshao": "so those who drown in the thunder and slow down the electricity are still hoping that my younger brother will know how to return."
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: know the wrong way and know the way back
Idiom usage
As predicate or object
Chinese PinYin : mí ér zhī fǎn
become aware of one 's errors and turn back from one 's wrong path
Take the world as one's duty. yǐ tiān xià wéi jǐ rèn
pass on the ancient culture without adding anything new to it. shù ér bù zuò