The door of the house

The door of the house

The Chinese idiom, CH ī zh ā NGM é NH ù in pinyin, means to set up a door and flaunt the family. It comes from the supplement of Suiyuan poetry.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan Mei's supplement to Suiyuan's notes on poetry in Qing Dynasty, Volume 9: "Yu Ya's saying that she didn't like the poetry chanting society probably started from the bad habit of the late Ming Dynasty."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing