cherish the old and care for the poor

cherish the old and care for the poor

Respecting the old and pitying the poor is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is j ì NGL ǎ Oli á NP í n, which means respecting the old and pitying the poor. It describes a person's good virtue of being respectful and loving. It comes from Liu Hong's maidservant.

Notes on Idioms

Old: old people; pity: pity.

The origin of Idioms

The fourth fold of Liu Hong's maidservant married by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty: "my God matches my little daughter osmanthus with Qitong as his wife, so that you can feel pity for the orphans and the poor. Therefore, it moves the world."

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute and object, it refers to the moral character of a person. The first part of Yuan Wu Ming Shi's Jiu Shi cohabitation: "hearing Zhang Gongyi's elder, he sympathized with the orphan and poor, respected the old and pitied the poor, went out of a helpless funeral and married the daughter of an orphan." In Yuan Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's debt to the next life is a second discount: "according to the old, there are few in the world."