respect each other like guests

respect each other like guests

Treat each other like guests, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi à NGD à IR ú B à n, which means to get along like a guest. Husband and wife respect each other. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the 33rd year of Duke Fu.

Idiom explanation

To get along is to treat guests. Husband and wife respect each other.

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attributive; used between husband and wife. When I see my wife when I am old, I am dressed. The biography of he Zeng in the book of Jin by Fang Xuanling in Tang Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

"Zuozhuan · the 33rd year of Xigong" says: "at the beginning of the year, the envoy of Jiuji passed through Ji. When he saw that Ji was short of him, his wife Qiaozhi was respectful and treated each other like a guest."

Idiom story

During the spring and Autumn period, Xu Chen, a senior official of the state of Jin, was sent as an envoy. Passing by Jidi, he met a farmer weeding in the field. His wife took lunch to the field and held it respectfully to her husband. The husband solemnly took over the meal, and his wife stood aside waiting for him to finish. Moved by their husband and wife's mutual respect, Xu Chen recommended him to Duke Wen of Jin Dynasty. Mutual respect has become an allusion of love and mutual respect between husband and wife.