cause-and-effect relationship

cause-and-effect relationship

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Yu á NQ ī ngli ú Ji é, which means that the water at the source is clear, and the water at the downstream is also clear. It originally refers to the person in the high position is good, and the person below is good. It also refers to the positive relationship between cause and effect of things. From Xunzi jundao.

The origin of Idioms

Xunzi jundao: "the source is clear, the flow is clear; the source is turbid, the flow is turbid."

Idiom usage

Combined; as object and attribute; metaphor causality. example the source is clean and the flow is clean, the origin is prosperous and the end is prosperous. (the inscription of Sishui Pavilion by Ban Gu in Han Dynasty)