rid the world of bad elements and administer the state affairs(sǎo chú tiān xià)

rid the world of bad elements and administer the state affairs

Sweeping away the world, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à och ú Ti à nxi à, which comes from the biography of Chen Fan in the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

"Chen Fan's biography in the book of the later Han Dynasty:" when a man is dealing with the world, should he wipe out the whole world and keep his affairs in peace? "

Idioms and allusions

Chen Fan word Zhongju, Runan Pingyu people also. Zuhedong Taishou. On the fifteenth day of the reign of fan, I had a spare time in a room, but the court was very dirty. His father and friend Xue Qin from the same county came to wait for him. He said to fan, "why don't you sweep for the guests?" Fan said, "when you are a man, you should wipe out the whole world and make things safe." It's very strange to know that he has the ambition of the Qing Dynasty.

translate

Chen fan, Zhongju, was born in Pingyu of Runan, and his ancestral home was the prefect of Hedong. When Chen Fan was 15 years old, he used to live alone in a very messy courtyard and house. His father's friend Xue Qin from the same county came to greet him and asked chen fan, "son, why don't you clean the courtyard to meet the guests?" Chen Fan replied, "when a man lives in the world, his task is to wipe out the world. How can he be limited to tidying up a room?" Xue Qin was surprised to know that he had great ambition to govern the world.

Idiom story

When Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was a child, chen fan lived in a disordered courtyard and devoted himself to reading. When visitors came, his father asked him to clean it up. He said, "a man should take sweeping away the world as his duty. How can he only care about a small courtyard?" Later, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty raised thousands of beautiful women in the palace, and Chen Fan generously asked for dismissal.

Idiom usage

To clean up the bad guys

Examples

A man's duty is to wipe out the world.

Chinese PinYin : sǎo chú tiān xià