To be honest(xiàng shēng bèi shí)

To be honest

Xiang Sheng Bei Shi, a Chinese idiom, means yearning for fame and departing from reality. It comes from treatise on classics.

The origin of Idioms

In the treatise on classical literature written by Wei Cao Pi of the Three Kingdoms period, it is said that "ordinary people are valued far and low, and their relatives are honest, but they are also suffering from hidden problems, which means that they are virtuous."

Idiom usage

This is not true, but false. Liu Zhiji, Tang Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : xiàng shēng bèi shí