support one's family

support one's family

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ ngsh ì f ǔ x ù, which means to serve parents and support wife and children. It generally refers to maintaining a family life. It comes from Mencius, the first king of Liang Hui.

The origin of Idioms

"Mencius · Liang Hui Wang Shang": "it is the property of the Ming monarch to control the people, and it must be enough to respect his parents and his wife."

Idiom usage

Chapter 13 of the biography of heroes and Heroines: "these students, who are now cultivating themselves, even looking up to things, dressing and eating, don't they come from the school?" Yun Jing's answer to Lai Qing in Qing Dynasty: the academy can look up to things and learn from them.

Analysis of Idioms

Close synonym: giving up everything