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Borrow books to keep true

Time: 2022-01-31 01:33:22 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Borrow books to keep true

The Chinese idiom, Ji è sh ū Li ú zh ē n in pinyin, means to borrow someone else's book and leave the original copy after copying, and return it to others. It comes from the biography of Hanshu Hejian Xianwang.

The origin of Idioms

"Hanshu · Hejian Xianwang Zhuan" says, "if you get a good book from the people, you must write it well and keep it true."

Idiom usage

To act as a predicate or attributive

Borrow books to keep true


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