keep the parents warm in winter and cool in summer

keep the parents warm in winter and cool in summer

Warm in winter and clear in summer is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à NGW à nxi à Q à ng, which means that parents are warm in winter and cool in summer. It refers to filial piety of children. It is also called warm in winter and cool in summer. From the monument of Zhang Menglong.

The origin of Idioms

"Zhang Menglong stele" of the Northern Wei Dynasty: "it is warm in winter and clear in summer, and it is honored at dawn and evening."

Idiom usage

It is warm in winter and cool in summer. In the book of rites, Qu Li Shang, written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty: "the rites of being a son of man are warm in winter and clear in summer." Chapter 33 of Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines in Qing Dynasty: "a son of man should be warm in winter and clear in summer, sober in the dark and sober in the morning, and support in and out."

Analysis of Idioms

Warm in winter and warm in summer