with many descendants

with many descendants

Five men and two women, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w ǔ n á n è RN ǚ, which means there are five children and two women. Later, it is used to show that the descendants are blessed. In Song Dynasty, pictures of five men and two women were often printed on paper or gifts to show blessing. It comes from the preface to Shi · Zhao Nan · He Bi Chen.

The source of the idiom is "preface to poem · Zhaonan · He Bi Chen", which is quoted by Kong Yingda as saying: "King Wu has five men and two women."