mencius ' mother moves her home three times to better her son 's education(sān qiān zhī jiào)

mencius ' mother moves her home three times to better her son 's education

Three move education, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ā nqi ā nzh ī Ji à o, interpreted as choosing a suitable living environment to help educate children. It comes from the biography of Lienv by Liu Xiang of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of lienvzhuan by Liu Xiang of Han Dynasty, Mencius' mother and young Mencius lived near the cemetery at first, and Mencius imitated mourning; later, they moved to the market and boasted after learning from merchants; Mencius' mother moved near the school, and Mencius learned etiquette and asked to go to school.

Idiom story

During the Warring States period, Mencius was very smart when he was a child, and often imitated the funerary to blow the trumpet. Mencius' mother worried that he would neglect his studies, so she moved his family to the city. Just next to a slaughterhouse, Mencius soon learned to kill pigs and sheep. Mencius had to move to a school nearby. From then on, Mencius began to learn Confucius' thoughts and became a generation of thinkers.

Chinese PinYin : sān qiān zhī jiào