pay even for a horse 's drink of water -- extreme honesty(yìn mǎ tóu qián)

pay even for a horse 's drink of water -- extreme honesty

Yin Ma Tou Qian, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ì nm ǎ t ó uqi á n, which means that people are honest and not at the expense of the public. From the beginning of learning.

The origin of Idioms

Xu Jian of the Tang Dynasty quoted "Sanfu Jue Lu" in the sixth volume of chuxue Ji: "there is Xiang Zhongxian in anling and Qing Dynasty, who drinks horses and Weishui River, and every time he throws three money."

Idiom usage

In the first volume of Cheng dengji's "learning from the forest of children", Liu Kuan was responsible for the people in the Han Dynasty, Pu Chih was insulting; Xiang Zhongshan was self-cleaning

Idiom story

During the Han Dynasty, Xiang Zhongshan, a very incorruptible man from anling, was so incorruptible that it made people laugh. Every time in the Weihe River to feed water to the horse, we have to invest three copper coins, which means that we dare not take advantage

Chinese PinYin : yìn mǎ tóu qián