East and West

East and West

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à ngli ú x à sh à ng, which means that water flows to the East and people go to the West. It refers to people's yearning for their hometown. From the book of the later Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu Ji.

The idiom comes from "the book of the later Wei Dynasty, the record of emperor Xiaowu": "Yu Wentai sent Zhao Guiliang, the governor of Dadu, to ride two thousand horses to meet him. The emperor said to the emperor, "this water flows to the East, but if I go up to the west, if I have to pay attention to Luoyang temple, it's a great achievement for me." The emperor and his left and right sides were crying