See the wall and see the soup

See the wall and see the soup

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji à nqi á ngji à ng, which means never forgetting our ancestors. It comes from the biography of Li Gu in the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Fan Ye's biography of Li Gu in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "after Yao Shu, Shun admired Yao for three years. When he sat down, he saw Yao on the wall, and when he ate, he saw Yao in the soup."

Idiom usage

I'll never forget my ancestors

Analysis of Idioms

See the soup and see the wall