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)
cause-and-effect relationship
Draw a picture of the land and commit a prison - huà dì zuò yù
face red or pale with too much anxiety - jí chì bái liǎn
expect the reality to correspond to the name - àn míng zé shí