sons of princes and nobles

sons of princes and nobles

Gongzi wangsun, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ō ngz ǐ w á ngs ū, the children of nobles, bureaucrats and princes in old times. It comes from the fourth chapter of Chu CE in the Warring States period.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty wrote in the fourth chapter of Chu policy of Warring States: "I don't know my husband's son and grandson's left bomb and right pill. He will add himself to the top of ten Ren, and use his kind as a move."

Idiom usage

It refers to the children of princes and nobles. example the red sun is burning like fire, and the rice in the field is half withered. The farmer's heart is like soup, and his sons shake the fan. (Chapter 16 of Shi Naian's Water Margin in Ming Dynasty)