One son becomes a monk and seven ancestors ascend to heaven

One son becomes a monk and seven ancestors ascend to heaven

One son became a monk and the seventh ancestor ascended to heaven. The pronunciation is y ī Z ǐ ch ū Ji ā, Q ī Z ǔ sh ē ngTi ā n. as the saying goes, it means that one person is in power and the whole family is in glory. From a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom: a son becomes a monk and the seventh ancestor ascends to heaven. Pinyin: y ī Z ǐ ch ū Ji ā, Q ī Z ǔ sh ē ngTi ā n. The same "one son becomes a monk, nine ancestors ascend to heaven.". source: the first seventeen chapters of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "am I not talking about fame? Don't you know "one son becomes a monk, and seven ancestors ascend to heaven"