Save fire and drowning

Save fire and drowning

Saving fire and drowning, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji Hu Zhen, which means to help people in trouble. The same as "saving the fire and drowning". It comes from Mencius · Liang Hui Wang by Zou mengke of Warring States period.

The origin of Idioms

In Mencius Liang Hui Wang written by Zou mengke in the Warring States period, it is said that "today Yan abused his people, and the king went to fight against them. The people thought that they would save themselves in the midst of fire and water, and the food pot would welcome the king's division."

Analysis of Idioms

Saving the fire and drowning

Idiom usage

To rescue a person in trouble is not a good thing, to debate right and wrong, and not a good thing to say. Wang Chong's Lun Heng Zi Ji in Han Dynasty