Choose a neighbor

Choose a neighbor

Duanzhu chooses a neighbor, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à nzh à Z é L í n, which means that Mencius' mother, in order to educate Mencius not to neglect her studies in the middle of the way, uses the cut yarn as a metaphor; Mencius' mother moves three times to choose a good environment to influence Mencius' growth. It comes from the biography of Lienv · the biography of Mu Yi.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty wrote in the biography of Lienv · biography of Mu Yi: "Mencius is very few. He has learned and returned, and Mencius' mother has made great achievements. He asked," where can we learn? " Mencius said, "it's natural." Mencius cut the fabric with a knife. Mencius was afraid and asked why. Mencius' mother said, "if I were to stop weaving, I would learn."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in education.

Idiom story

During the Warring States period, Mencius was very smart when he was a child, and often imitated the funerary to blow the trumpet. Mencius' mother worried that he would neglect his studies, so she moved his family to the city. Just next to a slaughterhouse, Mencius soon learned to kill pigs and sheep. Mencius had to move to a school nearby. From then on, Mencius began to learn Confucius' thoughts and became a generation of thinkers.