a pearl in the palm(zhǎng shàng míng zhū)

a pearl in the palm

The Pearl in the palm (zh ǎ ngsh à NGM í ngzh ū), a Chinese idiom, originally refers to a person who loves very much. Later, it is used to refer to the daughter whose parents especially love. From short song line.

Idiom usage

It's formal; it's object and attribute; it's commendatory

Examples

Daiyu is a five-year-old girl who is in love with her husband and wife. The second chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty

Citation explanation

It's a metaphor for someone you love very much.

Fu Xuan of Jin Dynasty wrote in his short song line: "in the past, you looked at me like a pearl in your hand. What do you mean once, abandon me

It refers to children loved by parents.

In Liang Jiangyan's Fu of hurting the son of love in the Southern Dynasty, it is said that "Zeng pitied for the miserable son of love and held the Pearl's son in pain."

Wang Hong of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his "march in the army" that "on the third day of his birth, my son has a pearl on his palm, a swallow chin, and a ape's skin on his arm."

Tang Bai Juyi's "cry Cui Er" poem: "a pearl in the palm of the hand, a child three years old, hair on the temples thousand stems, father sixty."

Song xinqiji's poem "meet music forever, send Chen Guangzong County Magistrate" says: "go back to the east when you are down, and win when you are romantic, and go to the apple of your hand."

"His sister-in-law is like a pearl in the palm of her hand."

Check carefully "Sun Yat Sen Ni" poem: "to develop a beautiful girl without a couple, the Pearl of the palm spit at will."

In the Qing Dynasty, Huang Zunxian's "paying homage to the tomb of great grandmother Mrs. Li Tai": "holding the Pearl in both hands, a hundred people are praised."

In the second chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty, she was named Daiyu. She was five years old and her husband and wife loved each other as if they were the apple of their eyes.

The third scene of modern Lao She's frog Rider: "how lovely Xianxiao daughter-in-law is, it's really me, the palm pearl of my two elders!"

The origin of Idioms

Fu Xuan of Jin Dynasty wrote in his short song line: "in the past, you looked at me like a pearl in your hand. What's the meaning of abandoning me once?"

Chinese PinYin : zhǎng shàng míng zhū