choose a master to serve
The Chinese idiom Li á ngq í NZ é m ù in pinyin means that a sage chooses his master to do what he wants. From Zuo Zhuan, the eleventh year of AI Gong.
The origin of Idioms
"The eleventh year of AI Gong" in Zuo Zhuan: "birds choose wood, how can wood choose birds."
Idiom usage
It refers to the sage's choice of subject. How can we not hear that "when we live, we should choose our subjects". It is not the husband who meets the master of the matter and loses it. The fourteenth chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty
choose a master to serve
visit willow and look for flowers -- frequent brothels - wèn liǔ xún huā
Grinding without phosphorus - mó ér bù lín,niè ér bù zī
be in a fix the horns of a dilemma - jìn tuì wéi gǔ
like a crane 's bone and a fowl 's skin - hè gǔ jī fū