give up civilian pursuits to join the army

give up civilian pursuits to join the army

Toubi Congrong is an idiom pronounced t ó UB ǐ C ó NgR ó ng, which means to throw away your pen and join the army. It refers to literati joining the army. It comes from the biography of ban Chao in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

explain

In the fifth year of Yongping, brother Gu was called to be a scholar. Chao and his mother followed him to Luoyang. Poor family, often for the official letter to support. After working hard for a long time, he dropped out of his business and wrote with a sigh: "my husband has no other ambition, so he should follow the example of Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian and make contributions to foreign lands, so that he can be a marquis and an Neng can be a writer and inkstone for a long time." ——Translation: in the fifth year of Yongping, Ban Gu was summoned to work as a school scholar, and ban Chao and his mother also came to Luoyang. His family was poor. Ban Chao worked as a scribe in the government to support his mother. He once threw a pen and sighed: "a man should make contributions to his country in the border areas. Like Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian, he can't always make a living between pen and inkstone." [note] Rong: Army; Congrong: join the army, join the army.

Examples

He asked about he Renlong's family and the course of his life, just like chatting with his children. Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng, Vol.2, Chapter 22

grammar

It is used as predicate and attributive with commendatory meaning.