from ruin

from ruin

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji à ns à B à Ji à, means to see someone in a hurry and not to rescue. It comes from the second part of saving the wind and dust by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's the second fold of "save the wind and dust": "what you've done, you can't save your life now. You're ashamed to see the peach garden killing horses and killing black cattle."

Idiom usage

Elder brother Zhou Jin died in the hands of Kuomintang warlords and bureaucrats. Ouyang mountain's Three Alleys

Analysis of Idioms

Selfishness, wisdom and self preservation