Big stick will go

Big stick will go

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à zh à ngz é Z à u, which means that when Shun's father beat him with a big stick, he ran away to avoid his father's injustice; the feudal filial piety advocated in the old days. From Shuoyuan jianben.

Notes on Idioms

Stick: stick; walk: escape.

The origin of Idioms

In Shuoyuan jianben written by Liu Xiang of Han Dynasty, it is said that "when Shun was a father, he asked for it and killed it, but he didn't get it. Small Chui will wait, big Chui will go, in order to escape the fury

Idiom usage

It means not to be beaten. Example Shun is the father, the little stick is accepted, the big stick is gone, not unfilial. In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Fan Ye's biography of Cui Shi in the book of the later Han Dynasty, Shun accepted the small stick and left the big stick. His wife, emperor and two daughters, did not wait for his orders. Jingde Tang Ji by Lu Jiuyuan in Song Dynasty

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, Zeng Shen was beaten by his father for planting melons late. After being beaten, he was unconscious and pretended to be very happy when he woke up. When Confucius heard about it, he was very angry and even didn't recognize him as a disciple. Confucius said that when Shun punished his father, he never lost his filial piety to his father. Zeng Shen trapped his father in the abyss of injustice.