pay a debt of gratitude

pay a debt of gratitude

interpretation

Knot grass: form grass into rope to rescue benefactor; hold ring: hold jade ring in mouth. In the old days, it used to be a metaphor of being grateful and never forgetting until death.

pronunciation

xiánhuánjiécǎo

Examples

Great kindness is not reported, but engraved in my heart. It's life and death.

rhyme word

Jingchai cloth jacket, digging the foot of the wall, fighting treasure in Lintong, respecting the old and caring for the young, creeping, more wolves and less meat, antelope hanging horns, timid big pressure small, on both sides, black white head, Ma Shengjiao, Zhien Tubao

source

"Wei Wuzi has concubines, but no sons," says Feng Menglong in the 19th volume of Xingshi Hengyan in Ming Dynasty and the 15th year of Xuangong in Zuozhuan. Wu Ziji, the son of Wei Wuzi, said, "it is necessary to marry." If you are sick, you say, "you must be martyred." When he died, he married him and said, "diseases lead to chaos. I'll follow them." In the battle of Fu's family, it was found that the old man's grass was used to strengthen Du Hui. Du Hui bumped and bumped, so he got it. The night dream said, "I am the father of the woman I married. I will use my ancestors to rule my life, and I will repay you. " In the book of the later Han Dynasty, biography of Yang Zhen, "the word" Yang Zhen "begins "Father treasure" Li Xian quoted Liang Wujun's "continuation of qixiejie · Huayin yellow finch" in the Southern Dynasty: "when Bao (Yang Bao) was nine years old, he went to the north of Huayin mountain and saw a yellow finch fighting for owls, falling under a tree and trapped by ants. Treasure to return, put in towel box, only eat yellow flowers, more than a hundred days feather, but fly away. On that night, a boy in yellow paid homage to Bao again and said, "I am an emissary of the queen mother of the West. You are kind enough to save her. I really feel that you have been helped." Take the four white rings and the treasure: "make sun Jiebai, the gentleman, to be on the throne for three things. This is how it should be." Later, the allusion of "tie a knot in the grass" was used to express gratitude and repay virtue. It is a legend of repaying one's kindness in ancient times to build grass and carry rings. The former tells of a scholar bureaucrat who married his father's concubine to another person instead of being buried. In order to repay his daughter's kindness, his dead father tangled the weeds on the ground and tripped up the enemy of his benefactor to win. The latter tells of a child who saved the life of a trapped yellow finch. The Yellow finch carried four white rings, claiming that this ring could protect the benefactor's son from white and high position. Later, the two allusions are combined into one sentence, which means that the recipient of a favor is sure to be rewarded and will live and die forever. Also say "tie a knot with grass"

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, Wei Ke, a senior official of the state of Jin, did not let his concubine be buried with him according to his father's will and asked her to remarry. His father's soul tied a knot of grass on the battlefield and stung Du Hui, a senior general of the state of Qin, to help Wei Ke win in return. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Bao saved an injured little yellow finch when he was young. After the little yellow finch got well, he took four jade rings to repay Yang Bao for saving his life.