A cut arm Alliance

A cut arm Alliance

The Chinese idiom, G ē B ì zh ī m é ng in pinyin, means to make a vow of peace by cutting one's arm. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the 32nd year of zhuanggong.

explain

Arm cutting: arm piercing; Alliance: covenant. Originally refers to the spring and autumn and Warring States period, Lu Zhuang Gong and Meng Ren cut arm, made a marriage contract. After the general refers to the arm with a cut oath Ning about (refers to men and women secretly engaged in marriage).

source

1. In the thirty second year of zhuanggong, Zuo Qiuming in the pre Qin period: "at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Duke built a platform and was close to the Dang clan. When he saw Meng Ren, he followed it. It's not easy. And in the words of his wife, Xu Zhi, the ally. It's like having children. " (2) Chapter 52 of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty: "if Zhao Gong taboo the surname of Mencius, Zhuang Gong form a cut arm alliance, it is the abolition of marriage ceremony, and the obscene chaos is born from here." (3) Pu Songling's strange tales of Liaozhai, Liu Xiangsheng in Qing Dynasty: "Xiang Sheng A prostitute, named Persia, has a cut arm alliance. " (4) Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery in the Qing Dynasty: old poem of Xiling feeling: "Yao Dasheng, Xiaolian, Jiangsu native, lived in Hangzhou, had a volume, and left a cut arm alliance."

Examples

For example, Zhao Gong taboo Mencius' surname, Zhuang Gong's cut arm alliance, it is the abolition of marriage ceremony, that the obscene chaos is born. (Chapter 52 of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty)

usage

A secret engagement between a man and a woman