want one 's old bones to be buried in one 's hometown

want one 's old bones to be buried in one 's hometown

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y è Lu ò Gu ī g ē n, which means that the leaves come out from the roots of trees, and eventually return to the roots after withering. Metaphor means that things always have a certain destination. People who visit other places will eventually return to their hometown. It comes from the Song Dynasty's shidaoyuan biography of lanterns in Jingde.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu" Volume 5: "leaves fall back to their roots, and there is no mouth when they come."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, object and attribute; it means that things have a certain destination. The eighth chapter of the story of Pingyao: "as the saying goes," a tree is tall, but the leaves fall to their roots. "I'm afraid I won't raise him. If you still grow up, you have to find your roots and ask Di, for fear that you won't recognize me as a grandfather. " Chapter 100 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. Or they will be transferred in, otherwise they will come back to their roots. Chapter 46 of the complete biography of Shuoyue written by Qian Cai in Qing Dynasty: the ancients said: "a tree is tall and leaves fall to their roots." If you miss your hometown, someone will send you home. The 22nd chapter of Li Baojia's Officialdom: the tree is tall and the leaves fall back to their roots. There must be a place in the future. We have to make it clear.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: think of the source after drinking water and return to the source after falling into a tree [antonym]: ungrateful