Peddling

Peddling

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m à I é RTI à f à, which means to sell one's wife and children to others because of life. It comes from the book of Southern Qi, biography of good governance, Yu Yuan.

The origin of Idioms

The book of the Southern Qi Dynasty, biography of good governance, Yu Yuan: "Your Majesty, when you come to this temple, all the people sell their children and their wives money. If the Buddha knows, you should be sad."

Idiom usage

It refers to living in poverty. example if you sell your children and care for your wife, you can't have merit and virtue in a tower! Song of the thousand pagodas of Xiuhui temple in South Han Dynasty by Huang Zunxian in Qing Dynasty