a house can 't have two masters

a house can 't have two masters

There are no two masters in a family. The Chinese idiom, Ji ā w ú è RZH ǔ in pinyin, means that there can be no two masters in a family, otherwise there will be a quarrel and no peace. From the book of rites · Fang Ji by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, Fang Ji, written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that "there is no two days in heaven, no two kings in earth, no two masters in family, and no two superior."

Idiom usage

There can be no two parents in a family. Example: in Song Dynasty, Shi Puji's "five lanterns meet the Yuan Dynasty": "you Yun, 24 wax, carefree, happy to meet people, do not worship the Buddha." A monk asked, "why don't you worship the Buddha when you see him?" He said, "there is no second master."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym no two days antonym one country, three gongs