A man of light fortune

A man of light fortune

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Q à NGC á IH à OSH à, which means to despise money and attach importance to scholars. It comes from the biography of Zhang Wen in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Idioms and allusions

According to the biography of Zhang Wen, Wu Zhi, the chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, "Fu Yun, a man of light wealth, is named Xianzhou County, and is sun Quandong's Cao Yao."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object. Chapter 31 of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty: "a man of light wealth helps many friends in one village; a man of great fortune is heard all over the world in the moon and the sky."