Rare is precious

Rare is precious

Rare is precious, pronounced w ù y ǐ x ī w é IGU ì, a Chinese idiom, which means that things are precious because they are rare and beneficial. In economics, scarcity does not mean that the quantity of goods is scarce, but that the supply is less than the demand, and the scarcity with demand is valuable. It comes from baopuzi Mingben by Ge Hong of Jin Dynasty.

explain

Things are rare: they are rare and beneficial. So it's precious.

source

Source: the Ming edition of baopuzi written by Ge Hong of Jin Dynasty: "however, a few things are more precious than many." Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "little year old day is happy to talk about the full moon of the granddaughter of the grandson of the family"

usage

A complex sentence; used as an object or a clause; refers to things that are precious because they are rare

Examples

Lu Xun's Mr. Fujino in morning and evening: "probably. When the cabbages from Beijing are transported to Zhejiang, they are tied to the roots with red ropes and hung upside down at the fruit shops, which are regarded as Jiaocai. "