the pine and the cypress endure cold winter together
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Su ì h á ns ō NGB ǎ I, which means people who can keep their moral integrity in adversity. From the Analects of Confucius · Zihan.
The origin of Idioms
In Confucius' Analects of Confucius in the pre Qin period, Zi Han said, "when the year is cold, then the pines and cypresses wither."
Idiom usage
To be an object; to be a person of virtue. example later, wealth has been scattered, and the old pines and cypresses still remain. Liu Yuxi, Tang Dynasty, will go to Ruzhou on the way out of Junxia and leave for Li Xianggong
the pine and the cypress endure cold winter together
die to preserve one's virtue intact - qǔ yì chéng rén
a vast territory with a sparse population - dì kuàng rén xī