A river full of water(yǐn hé mǎn fù)

A river full of water

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ NH é m ǎ NF ù, which means that people should be content, greed is useless. It's from Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou.

The origin of Idioms

In Zhuang Zi's xiaoyaoyou written by Zhuang Zhou in the Warring States period, Song Dynasty, the Wren nests in the deep forest, but only one branch; the river is full of rats.

Analysis of Idioms

Used as an object; used to admonish. example in a forest, birds are left behind by the reeds; in a river, animals are not spared by the flood. Song Dynasty Zhang Junfang's Yunji Qiqian (Volume 49)

Chinese PinYin : yǐn hé mǎn fù