Despise the proud
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī ngsh ì à ow ù, which means to pay no attention to worldly affairs. It's from caihaoji, palace forbidden slander.
Notes on Idioms
Light: contemptuous; World: common people; pride: arrogance; thing: people, public.
The origin of Idioms
According to Tu Long's caihaoji Gongjin shengcalumny in Ming Dynasty, "this man is proud of his literary talent."
Idiom usage
He is a bohemian and has the ambition to despise the arrogant. (Feng Menglong, Ming Dynasty, Volume 26 of warning the world)
Despise the proud
spit out a mouthful in the middle of eating and bind up one 's hair in the midst of a bath in order to see visitors - tǔ bǔ wò fà