dignified

dignified

Li á NYU ǎ NT á NGG ā o, a Chinese idiom, means that the emperor is above all officials, and his dignity is beyond reach. The old metaphor refers to the dignity of the emperor. It comes from the biography of Jia Yi in the book of Han by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu's biography of Jia Yi in the book of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "the respect of the Lord is like the hall, the officials are like his majesty, and the common people are like him. Therefore, at the Ninth level, if the court is far away, it will be high; if the court is dead, if the court is near, it will be low. It's hard for the high to climb, but it's easy for the low to climb the mausoleum

Idiom usage

Since ancient times, the monarch and his ministers have been divided, that is to say, to read the virtuous and the virtuous and to promote the old. The sixth volume of Rengui collection notes by Chen Kangqi in Qing Dynasty