offer congratulations on the completion of a new residence(yàn què xiāng hè)

offer congratulations on the completion of a new residence

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y à nqu è Xi à NGH è, which means that the birds celebrate each other for the completion of the building. Later, it is often used to congratulate the completion of the new house. From Huainanzi shuolinxun.

The origin of Idioms

"Huainanzi · shuolinxun" says: "Tang Mu's utensils and lice hang on each other, the edifice is completed and the swallows and the sparrows greet each other, and you are happy to leave." "Book of the Northern Qi Dynasty - Lu Xun's ancestral biography": the answer is: "and I'll be congratulated by the swallow and the joy."

Idioms and allusions

When lice grow on the head, the hot water for washing the hair is ready. When they see the steaming steam, they should condole each other, because their end is coming. People worked hard to build the building. The bird led the whole family to fly up and down to sing around the building. It was celebrating that they had a place to live again. Little flowers, insects, birds and animals have different worries and joys. Silkworms eat mulberry leaves but not water, and turn into moths in 32 days; cicadas drink dew but not food, and molt and pupate in 30 days; mayflies neither eat nor drink, and die in three days. When people eat the powder forged from alunite (Pyrite), they will die of poisoning, while silkworms can fatten up after eating it. When Croton is thrown into the pond, the fish's belly will soon turn to the sky, while mice will grow fat after eating Croton. In the spring and Autumn period, when Liu Xiahui, a sage, saw Tangxi, he immediately thought happily, "this thing can be used to support the elderly. "His younger brother, diaozhi, is a big thief who goes against the trend of the times, does not stick to the etiquette and sages, and turns away from the Scriptures. When he sees Tangxi, he is happy to say," he just uses it to dip the lock spring. "Different people know the same things differently. Pottery is made by fire, but if it is dry burned again, it will break; bamboo grows by water, but it will die if it is immersed in water for a long time. Therefore, the truth and change of things are complex. To understand the mystery, we must analyze the specific situation, act according to the objective laws of things, and never make subjective assumptions.

Idiom usage

The subject predicate type is often used to congratulate the completion of a new house

Chinese PinYin : yàn què xiāng hè