a woman of low birth may marry into the purple
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ū Gu ì Q ī R ó ng, which means husband is noble, wife is also glorious. It comes from the epitaph of Xia Hou, wife of Zhao, Prince guest.
The origin of Idioms
Tang zhengci's epitaph of Xiahou, wife of Zhao, a guest of the crown prince, said: "Yu Xuan's elephant clothes are the honor of the husband and wife."
Idiom usage
As predicate, object, attribute; used between husband and wife. Although I have never been a husband and wife, I only know that men are superior to women. The third discount of Yuan Dynasty's anonymous's Ju An Qi Mei
a woman of low birth may marry into the purple
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