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Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ú NW á NGJ ì Ju é, which means to restore the perished country and continue the broken aristocratic family. From the Analects of Confucius, Yao Yue.
The origin of Idioms
In the Analects of Confucius, Yao Yue said, "the rise and fall of the state, the continuation of the peerless, the rest of the people, the people of the world return."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate and attributive to make those who are on the verge of extinction continue. Example in LV Shi Chun Qiu · Shen Ying, it is said that "Fu Zheng is the death of Han family, and I wish you to seal it later. This is the so-called meaning of survival, death and inheritance."
Analysis of Idioms
The survival of synonyms
at stake
go to and fro in constant streams - luò yì bù jué
husband and wife who have gone through difficult times together - huàn nàn fū qī
a terrain of strategic importance - lóng pán hǔ jù
to compose poems while holding the lance horizontally in the saddle - héng shuò fù shī
show respect to a ranking official - fù nǔ qián qū
unable to distinguish between the clear and the muddy - jīng wèi bù fēn