the lost hairpins and shoes

the lost hairpins and shoes

A Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y í Z ā nzhu ì J ù, which means a lost hairpin and shoes. It is a metaphor for old things. It refers to not forgetting an old friend and is called "not abandoning a hairpin and a pendant". It comes from the biography of Wei Xiang in northern history. "

Notes on Idioms

Left: lost; fall: dropped; 屦: shoes.

The origin of Idioms

Wei Xiangzhuan, a biography of northern history: "in the past, if people didn't abandon their hostages, their evil came out with them, and they didn't go to the same destination. Although I have not caught the pioneers in my conduct, it is not my will to abandon the old and record the new. "

Idiom usage

It refers to old things or old feelings.

Examples

Volume 9 of Han Shi waizhuan: "when Confucius was traveling in Shaoyuan, there was a woman crying in the middle of the river, and her voice was very sad. Confucius was so strange that he made his disciples ask Yan, "why do you cry, madam?" The woman said, "the villagers died by cutting their salary. I have a hairpin. I mourn." The disciple said, "what's so sad about the death of Ji Zan after cutting his salary?" The woman said, "it's not a hairpin. If I feel sad, I won't forget it."

Han Jiayi's new book Yucheng: "in the past, King Zhao of Chu fought with Wu people, and the Chu army was defeated. King Zhao left. He made a decisive decision and lost it. He took 30 steps and then turned back to take the right. When it came to the Sui Dynasty, he asked, "why did Wang once cherish his life?" King Zhao said, "although the state of Chu is poor, how can it love one person? It's the opposite of thinking. " Since then, the custom of Chu has never been abandoned. " The combination of the two events by later generations is called "the lost hairpin and the pendant", which refers to the old things or old feelings.

The biography of Wei Xiang in the book of Zhou was written as "the lost hairpin and falling shoes".

Zeng Zhao, Song Dynasty, wrote in the form of Xie Shangbiao in Chenzhou: "to be faithful to the benevolence of the lost hairpin, to promote the friendship between the disease and the pollution."

Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the book "eternal reunion · riverside trouble relief" that "if you really go to the river, you must leave something as a memory. You can't help but go to the riverside again and look for it carefully. If you have a hairpin and shoes, it's the soul of a good wife."