the colour of the silk will be changed as it is dyed(rǎn sī zhī biàn)

the colour of the silk will be changed as it is dyed

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R ǎ ns ī zh ī Bi à n, which means that the same person or thing becomes different due to the influence of environment. It's from Mozi. Souran.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] to stop the flow and [antonym] out of the mud but not stained

The origin of Idioms

Mo Zi · Suo ran: "when you see the dyed silk, you sigh and say," if you dye it on the grey, it will be grey, if you dye it on the yellow, it will be yellow. Those who enter change, so does their color. "

Idiom usage

The environment affects people. Good old friends, please say in this words: the change of the silk, Mozi Zhihuai; the feeling of the wrong way, Yang Zhu sighed, especially in the general's tour place, although the world reputation has been, but the stink is the same. Biography of Yuan Qiao in the book of Jin

Idioms and allusions

Mozi said that he once sighed when he saw people dyeing silk: "when silk is dyed with green pigment, it becomes cyan, and when it is dyed with yellow pigment, it becomes yellow. With different dyes, the color of silk also changes. After five times, it's five colors. Therefore, we must be cautious in this matter. "

Chinese PinYin : rǎn sī zhī biàn