What's left(shǒu zé zhī yí)

What's left

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ǒ uz é zh ī y í, which means the relics of our ancestors. From the book of rites, Volume 30.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites yuzao written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that "if the father doesn't read the book of his father, his hands will be preserved."

Idiom usage

As an object; of a relative's belongings

Examples

Pan Yue of Jin Dynasty wrote in the eulogy of the imperial concubine: "looking at the relics, wandering around the old house, the handkerchief has not changed, and the collar is as greasy as ever."

"It's the legacy of seizing the hand," said Pan Yue of Jin Dynasty

Song Li Qingzhao's Hou Xu: "today's hand is as fresh as new, but the tomb has been arched."

Li Dongyang's poem "the burning of the newly engraved manuscripts in the tomb of the emperor of Xianfu" in the Ming Dynasty has the feeling of describing Zhaofan: "the remnant articles are half scattered, and they are discussed one by one. Oh, there are manuscripts in the calligraphy. "

The epitaph of emperor Qingzhou Tongzhi Yinsi Yuan Gong (yuan Keli's great grandson) written by Qingtang Zhixu: "in the memory of XuXi's reign, he often went to and fro with foreigners. He met the literary master of Wang's father, and displayed the Yi ware of the earlier generation. All the books and tripods were appreciated by the predecessors. His legacy is still lingering."

Ye Shengtao's "from Xi'an to Lanzhou": "where are the flat fields and terraces on the mountains that we see now, which do not retain the hands of the farmers in the past dynasties to transform nature?"

Chinese PinYin : shǒu zé zhī yí