a man away from his native place is worthless

a man away from his native place is worthless

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R é NL í Xi ā ngji à n, which means to leave home without relatives or relatives, to lose dependence and to be despised. From journey to the West.

The source of the idiom is the 36th chapter of a journey to the West written by Wu Chengen of Ming Dynasty: "when the elder hears the words, his eyes are full of tears and he says:" poor, poor! That's why people leave their hometown. "