give birth to a boy(nòng zhāng zhī xǐ)

give birth to a boy

The joy of playing Zhang is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is n ò ngzh ā ngzh ī x ǐ, which means that the ancients gave Zhang to a boy to play with, hoping that he would have the same moral character as jade in the future. In the old days, it was often used to celebrate the birth of a boy.

From Shi Xiaoya · Si Gan: "he is a born man, a bed for sleeping, a garment for clothes, and a Zhang for playing."

Idiom usage

usage

Congratulations on the birth of a boy.

Make sentences with examples

"It's not that the man who gave birth had a feud with his concubine in his previous life, or that someone else gave birth to him, or that he made a fool of himself." ——The 13th chapter of Huang Xiaopei's twenty years of prosperous dream in Qing Dynasty; "Wang's family, who is a member of the family, plays harmoniously with the music, and only drives in the village. There is a new joy of playing Zhang, which promises the auspiciousness of planting jade." ——Chen Ruyuan, Ming Dynasty, wrote the second story of the Golden Lotus: "today is a good day for your father Ximen to increase his official salary, and it's also a happy day for you to make a fortune. You should sing this song." ——The third chapter of Jin Ping Mei

Source text

"The book of songs · Xiaoya · Si Gan": "it's a bed for a man to be born. It's the clothes that carry the clothes and the Zhang that carry the Nong. He was the king of the imperial family. It's the place where a woman is born and where she sleeps. Carry the clothes and the tiles. It's nothing but no ceremony, only food and drink, no parents Here Zhang is Mei Yu, wishing him to be the "king of the family" in the future; tile refers to the parts on the spinning wheel, hoping that she will be competent as a female worker in the future. It has the color of the times that men are superior to women.

Chinese PinYin : nòng zhāng zhī xǐ