be engaged to marry

be engaged to marry

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ó ngsh é NGJ ì Z ú, which refers to the marriage of a man and a woman through the introduction of a matchmaker. It comes from xuxuangualu.

The origin of Idioms

Li Fuyan of Tang Dynasty wrote in his xuxuanguai Lu: "when you ask what is in the bag, you say:" red rope ear! Although the enemy's family is separated from the noble and the humble, the end of the world is from the official, and Wu and Chu are in a foreign land, this rope can not be tied up in the end. "

Idiom usage

It refers to the marriage between men and women. example from this point of view, the old man under the moon is tied with red ropes. Although he is thousands of miles away, he is in harmony. Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty

Idiom story

Wei Gu, a boy in ancient duling, met an old man sitting on the ground with a red cloth bag on the road one day. He felt strange and asked the old man. The old man said that he was in charge of the world's marriage. The red rope in the bag was used to tie the couple's feet together. No matter how far apart they were, they would eventually come together. If they broke, the couple would be separated. the novel says: Du Ling, Wei Gu, shaogu, wants to marry his wife early. However, he proposes in many ways and fails to succeed. In the second year of Yuanhe reign, Wei Gu will go to Qinghe, and his trip is in the South Inn of Song Dynasty. A guest brings up the daughter of Pan Fang, the Qinghe Sima. He hopes to meet him at the gate of xilongxing temple in Nandian. Because he is eager to propose, Wei Gu goes to the meeting place in the middle of the night. There, he meets an old man under the moon: the moon is still bright. It's neither the trend of the eight division of the insect seal script, nor the Sanskrit script, because he asked, "what book is my father looking for? Gu Shao studies hard. It is the word of the world. It is said that there is no one who does not know. The Sanskrit characters of western countries can also be read, but this bibliography has not seen them. How about that? " The old man said with a smile, "this is not a book in the world. Why can you see it?" Gu said, "but what's the matter with you?" Said: "the world's wedding letter ear." Because asked: "what is in the bag?" Said: "red rope ear, to tie the foot of husband and wife, and its life, then latent use phase tie, although the enemy's home, high and low separation, the end of the world from the official, Wu Chu foreign land, this rope a tie, can not avoid. Your feet are tied there. What can he do for you? " (according to Taiping Guangji (Zhonghua Book Company, 2003), the following is the same. ）This old man who leans on the cloth bag, sits on the steps, and checks with the moon is the old man who was later regarded as the God of marriage among the people. As long as he tied the feet of men and women in the world with the red rope in his bag, they would become husband and wife, even if they were "enemies' home, separated from the noble and the humble, the end of the world from the official, Wu and Chu strange land".