where the wind passes , the grass bends -- influence of gentlemen

where the wind passes , the grass bends -- influence of gentlemen

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē NGX í NGC ǎ oy ǎ n. It means the grass falls when the wind blows. It is a metaphor for moral education. From Yan Yuan, Analects of Confucius.

Idiom explanation

Yan: fall down. The grass falls when the wind blows. It is a metaphor for moral education.

Idiom usage

In Song Chen Liang's You Gui Mao Qiu Shu, it is said that "the secular world is becoming more and more shallow, and small measures have been enough to shake the whole life, so that the Secretary can show what he has done, and it will definitely be popular today." In Jin Gehong's Bao Pu Zi · Yong Xing: "after Ming Dynasty, the wind was blowing in the grass and the road was harmonious and mellow." According to Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty's "CE Uighur Khan Jiahao Wen", it is said that "the East spread to Haiyi, the West spread to Shandi, Huining and Weizhi, and the scale spread to Caoyan." In Zizhitongjian, the first year of Qinglong, Emperor Ming of Wei Dynasty: "Shenghua suosui, Wanli Caoyan." According to the biography of PANI in the book of Jin, "learning is like cultivating seedlings and turning into Thinopyrum."

Idioms and allusions

In the Analects of Confucius, Yan Yuan, Ji Kangzi asked Confucius, "if there is no way to kill (1), then there is way (2). What is it like?" Confucius said to him, "how can you use killing to govern? The son wants to be good, but the people are good. The virtue of the gentleman, the virtue of the villain, the grass, the wind on the grass (3), will Yan (4) (1) no way: refers to people who have no way. (2) Tao: refers to people who have Tao. (3) upper wind: refers to the wind added to the grass. (4) fall, fall. Ji Kangzi asked Confucius how to govern political affairs and said, "how about killing those who have no way to help those who have way?" Confucius said, "when you are in charge of political affairs, where can you use the means of killing? As long as you want to do good, the people will do good. The moral character of the incumbent is like the wind, and the moral character of the subordinate is like the grass. When the wind blows on the grass, the grass will fall interpretation "the virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of a villain, grass, grass, the wind above, will die down." Fall, fall. The grass falls when the wind blows. Later, he used the metaphor of "the wind goes down and the grass dies down" to describe that moral culture and education can influence people.