friendship between old and young people(wàng nián zhī jiāo)

friendship between old and young people

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is w à ngni á nzh à Ji à o, which means making friends with different ages. It comes from the biography of Li Heng in the later Han Dynasty and the biography of He Xun in the southern history.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of you Heng in the book of the later Han Dynasty, "Heng was weak at the beginning, but he was forty years old, so he made friends with him." In the biography of He Xun in the history of the south, it is said that "when the weak crown state holds up a scholar, fan Yun in the South Township sees his countermeasures and praises him greatly. He forgets to make friends because of his marriage."

Idiom usage

Chen Tai sighed and said, "if the public expects the enemy to be like God, why should the Shu soldiers worry about it?" So Chen Tai and Deng AI got married. (Chapter 111 of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty)

Idiom story

When you and Kong Rong became friends, you were less than 20 years old and Kong Rong was 50 years old. It is precisely because Kong Rong values the talents of you Heng that he is willing to make friends with you. Later, "friends who forget their age" became an idiom, which refers to making friends regardless of age.

Chinese PinYin : wàng nián zhī jiāo