Live in the suburbs(róng mǎ shēng jiāo)

Live in the suburbs

The Chinese idiom, R ó NGM ǎ sh ē ngji ā o in pinyin, means that the war started nearby, and the war disaster was serious. From chapter 46 of Laozi. “

The origin of Idioms

In Chapter 46 of Lao Tzu, there is a way in the world, but there is no way in the world. The army was born in the suburbs. There is no greater misfortune than discontent; there is no greater blame than desire. So contentment is often enough.

Idiom usage

Wu Di Ji of the book of Zhou: "since the East and the West are not separated, the two countries are striving for strength, the army lives in the suburbs, the daily use of war, the combination of war and disaster, the balance of power between the enemy and the battlefield, one thing and the other." According to the book of Sui, jingjizhi 1: "in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Shiji was on the right side of the pass, and forced his neighbors to live in the suburbs, and the days were endless." Zhang of Tang Dynasty said that "when the four towns were not restored, the two tribes were still under control, and the army lived in the suburbs." Liu Ruoyu of Ming Dynasty wrote in zuozhongzhi, Liao left abandoned land: "in case the army was born in the suburbs, the clown would be obedient, and would be willing to donate his body to serve the country." Qian Qianyi of the Qing Dynasty wrote a poem "sending Qu Jiaxuan to the south to return the matter" which said: "when a soldier is born in the suburbs, he will return the national humiliation, but when a class loses a scholar, he will not be punished."

Chinese PinYin : róng mǎ shēng jiāo