South Ruan, North Ruan(nán ruǎn běi ruǎn)

South Ruan, North Ruan

[interpretation] it refers to the families of the same race living in one place with different wealth.

Idiom story

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Ruan Ji and his nephew Ruan Xian, the Seven Sages of the bamboo grove, lived in Lunan, their hometown. Other Ruan people lived in Lubei, and Lunan people were very poor. According to the local custom, every year on July 7, Ruan Xian had to expose his clothes to the sun. He only took out a few coarse cloth shorts and hung them on the bamboo pole to dry.

Idiom information

[idiom] [phonetic notation] n á NRU ǎ Nb ě IRU ǎ n [usage] is used as object and attributive; it refers to the same people who open one eye, close one eye, sit on one's post and taste one's courage, and take revenge from a gentleman. It is not too late for ten years, the promise is far away, the speech is high and interesting, and the east corner has passed away. Sang Yu is not too late, he is not too late, but he is steady to accept the compilation, surrender and accept money, and he is green and white eyed, and demolishes his family property

Idioms and allusions

source

Source 1: the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Liu Yiqing's "a new account of the world, Rensheng": Ruan Zhongrong and infantry lived in the south of the road, zhuruan lived in the north of the road, Ruan was rich in the north, Ruan was poor in the south. Source 2: biography of Ruan Xian in the book of Jin: Xianhe lived in Daonan, zhuruan lived in Daobei, Ruan was rich in the north and Ruan was poor in the south.

allusion

Ruan Xian is one of the Seven Sages in the bamboo grove. He is good at playing musical instruments. Later generations called the instrument he played at that time "Ruan Xian", which is still used to play today. Ruan Xian is Ruan Ji's nephew and comes from a famous family. At that time, the Ruan family was a big family and lived in a place. Ruan Xian and Ruan Ji live in Daonan, and the people from the collateral branch of the family live in Daobei. People living in the north are relatively rich, while those living in the south, such as Ruan Ji and Ruan Xian, who are proud of their talents, are inevitably poor. On July 7, it was customary for every household to air their clothes. People in the North hang out their clothes. They are all made of silk and satin. They hang a yard full of clothes. Ruan Xian didn't have anything to air in his home, but he also took a bamboo pole and hung a pair of big calf nose trousers in the courtyard. The scenery on both sides of the courtyard reflected each other. The person who saw it was surprised and asked Ruan Xian why he had to hang a pair of trousers. Ruan Xian humorously replied: "we can't avoid vulgarity. Let's just hang up." Later generations used "Nan Ruan, Bei Ruan" to express the disparity between the rich and the poor of the people of the same race living in the same place.

Examples of Idioms

Close door, maodi even neighbors, North Ruan that pity, South Ruan poor. Tang Dai shulun's poem "journey to Hunan Doctor Zhang"

Novel characters

Xu Nan Ruan, Xu Bei Ruan, from the Plato's sky by Annes.

Chinese PinYin : nán ruǎn běi ruǎn