surrendering oneself to the cannibal bandits to substitute for his younger brother they captured , stating that he himself is fatter(xiōng féi dì shòu)

surrendering oneself to the cannibal bandits to substitute for his younger brother they captured , stating that he himself is fatter

Brother fat and sister thin is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi ō NGF é ID ì sh ò u, old metaphor brothers love each other, fight to death in distress.

The origin of Idioms

Zhao Xiaozhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "when the world is in chaos, people eat each other. Xiaodi's propriety was obtained by the hungry thief. When Xiaowen heard of it, he tied himself to the thief and said, "it's better to be hungry and thin for a long time than to be fat and full." The thief was shocked and let it go

Make sentences with examples

Friends in brothers, split up, brothers fat and thin, no time to replace each other; let jujube push pear, long stop happy day. Southern History: biography of King Wuling of Liang Dynasty

Idiom story

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, with hungry people everywhere. Zhao Xiao's younger brother, Zhao Li, was once caught by a thief and was about to be eaten. Zhao Xiao tied himself up to meet the thief and said that Zhao Li was too thin to be fat, so that you could eat more. The thief was so surprised that he let them both go.

Word usage

Used as an object or attribute; used between brothers.

Chinese PinYin : xiōng féi dì shòu