look down money and powerful status

look down money and powerful status

Fu Yun Fu Gui is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is f ú y ú NF ù Gu ì, which means to regard wealth as a floating cloud. It means to treat money and status lightly. From the Analects of Confucius.

Idiom usage

It's true that a man who has attached great importance to famous people all his life and thought that nothing can be avoided has met an iron monarch today.

Analysis of Idioms

Rich as clouds

The origin of Idioms

"The Analects of Confucius:" unjust and rich and expensive, to me like floating clouds. "

Idiom explanation

Floating clouds: floating clouds. Think of wealth as a floating cloud. It's a metaphor to treat money and status lightly.

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, when Confucius led his disciples to travel around the world and arrived in Wei again, the political situation of Wei changed greatly. The Duke of Wei expelled his father and ascended the throne. The doctor Kong Zhen took out a pile of gold coins to ask Confucius to name Wei justly, saying that the Duke of Wei was right. Confucius felt insulted, saying that wealth and money were like clouds in the air to him.