Eat the son for the king

Eat the son for the king

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í Z ǐ x ù NJ ū n, which means to eat your son's meat to flatter the Lord. It comes from the story of Lu Huiqing.

The origin of Idioms

Song Su Zhe's "Qi Zhu channeling Lu Huiqing's appearance" says: "it's also good to eat the son for the king, but it's good to kill the king if you push his forbearance." See also Shizi.

Idiom explanation

Eat your son's meat to flatter the Lord