would as lief die as live in dishonour

would as lief die as live in dishonour

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n ì ngs ǐ B ù R ǔ, which means that people would rather be executed than be humiliated. It comes from two biographies of women in Yuan history by Song Lian of Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Song Lian of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the biography of the women of the Yuan Dynasty: "the second daughter of the Liu family, Chang Yue Zhen, was 19 years old; the second was sun, 17 years old. Longxing people are not allowed to marry. Chen Youliang and Kou Longxing's mother cried to their two daughters and said, "if the city is broken, where are you going?" The second daughter said, "I'd rather die than humiliate my parents." When the city sank, the two girls went up the building and hanged themselves one after another. Zheng Nu, a servant girl, hanged himself. "

Idiom usage

If you want me to submit, it must be Guan Sheng who comes to invite me, and I will surrender; if he doesn't come, I'd rather die than disgrace! The sixty sixth chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian in Ming Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Better die than disgrace