Three fights and three baths(sān xìn sān yù)

Three fights and three baths

Three quarrels and three baths, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ā nx ì ns ā NY ù, which means that this is a kind of courtesy with great respect for people in ancient China. It comes from Guoyu Qiyu written by Lu zuoqiuming in Chunqiu period.

Idiom explanation

Defiance: apply incense to your body. Bathe many times and apply perfume to your body. This is a kind of courtesy in ancient China.

The origin of Idioms

Compare to, three quarrels and three baths. Duke Huan welcomed him in the suburbs. Guoyu Qiyu written by Zuo Qiuming in the spring and Autumn Period

Examples

Since the wisdom and Ao, can not reach, so three quarrels and three baths, and the word said: "no cutting." Preface to Yuanxun Zi by Huang Tingjian in Song Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

[usage] used as predicate and attributive

Combined mode

Ancient times

[similar words] three quarrels, three murmurs, and solemnity

[rhyme words] Ji Xiao Zhi Ju, excerpts from chapters, searching for chapters, thousands of worries, parting feelings, narrating from childhood to childhood, leaving a hairpin and falling down, invincible, you come and I go, leaving a few words and phrases

Idiom story

During the spring and Autumn period, civil strife broke out in the state of Qi. Later, his son Xiaobai returned home to succeed him as Duke Huan of Qi. Bao Shuya suggested that Duke Huan of Qi ignore the past and appoint Guan Zhong as prime minister. If Duke Huan of Qi wanted to achieve hegemony, he went to the suburbs to meet Guan Zhong in person with the etiquette of three fights and three baths. Guan Zhong helped him to become the leader of the five tyrants in the spring and Autumn period.

Chinese PinYin : sān xìn sān yù