feel like old friends at the first meeting

feel like old friends at the first meeting

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ī Ji à NR ú Ji ù, which means that you fall in love with each other when you first meet, just like an old friend. It comes from the biography of Fang Xuanling in the book of the new Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Fang Xuanling in the book of the new Tang Dynasty, it is said that "Taizong took the Duke of Dunhuang as his guide to the north of the Weihe River, and went to the military gate with his staff. It was as if he had seen the old one at first sight."

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, attributive and adverbial. Example: in the 29th year of Xianggong in Zuozhuan, it is said that "[the letter of Prince Wu] was employed by Zheng, and when he saw Zichan, he was like an old acquaintance." Su Shi of the Song Dynasty wrote in his "Narration" that "after another 11 years, he and his colleagues, Ji De Ru, Yu Xu, were as good as ever." Yu Yue's essays on spring in the hall in Qing Dynasty (Volume 2): "in the spring of Ji Si, Yu Lai's exegesis class begins in jingshe, which is suitable for the Shi Lang to borrow the building in the lake. It's just like the old one at first sight." "Li Ye Hou (Li mi) was the prime minister. Wu people visited Chang'an in the west, and ye Hou was as old as before." Chapter 58 of outlaws of the Marsh: "one is Lu Zhishen, a flower monk, and the other is Yang Zhi, a blue faced beast. They are as old as before." Yu Yue's essays on spring in the hall in Qing Dynasty (Volume 10): "Yu Jiachen began to live in Xin'an when he was old, and uncle Lian was as old as before." Cao Ming's Yan'an people: "she's going to take out her joy and gratitude and convey them to this stranger at first sight."