interior cultivation

interior cultivation

Beiwu Huaiyu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ī h è Hu á iy ù, which means wearing coarse cloth clothes and embracing beautiful jade. Metaphor, though born in poverty, has real talent and learning. It comes from the seventy chapters of Laozi's book of virtue.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 70 of Lao Tzu: "those who know me are hopeful, and those who know me are precious. It is because the sage is cherished."

Idiom usage

In the annals of the Three Kingdoms. Wei Shu. Wu Di Ji: "today, there is no one who is caught by Brown Huaiyu and is called shore? Have you no money without ignorance? " In Song Sima Guang's "Qiyi shizhazi", it is said that "the whole world is as wide as a forest, and you are as handsome as a forest. You can't be well-known if you want to retreat from stagnant flood with tranquility, or if you want to be lonely and cold, and if you want to be covered with brown jade." In Qian Qianyi's preface to Sun Tzu's long poems in Qing Dynasty, it is said that "Zi Chang is not proud of himself because he is covered with brown jade."