a dutiful son is obliged to pay his father 's debts
The Chinese idiom, f ù zh à iz ǐ Hu á n in pinyin, means that the debts of the father before his death are paid by the children; it also means that the faults of the parents involve the children. From this life, this night.
The origin of Idioms
Zhu Xingyi: "I know that I was born in a bad family. When I was born, I was burdened with the guilt of my parents. Let's call it "paying off the debt."
Idiom usage
Subject predicate type; as an object; refers to the debt of the predecessor and the repayment of the successor. example this can't be a game of paying off a father's debt. The second chapter of Jin Yuzhou's Zhao Kuangyin: "the way is: the father owes the son, the son owes the father."
a dutiful son is obliged to pay his father 's debts
recover one 's original simplicity - fǎn pǔ huán zhēn
To be burdened with worldly affairs - fù sú zhī lèi