childhood friend
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ǒ ngji ǎ ozh ī Ji ā o, which means friends made in childhood. It comes from the book of rites, neize and the book of Jin, the third biography.
Idiom explanation
Total angle: Children's hair bun up the result of separate childhood. A friend made in childhood.
Idiom usage
Examples
However, it should not be general. (Cui Xiucai, the master of Ji garden in Qing Dynasty)
The origin of Idioms
In the book of rites, neize: "a bun, a total horn." Zheng Xuan notes: "the total angle, close the bun knot." "Book of Jin · biography No.3": "the word Shao Jingzu, less in the same year as Emperor Wu, has a good general character."
childhood friend
Better a broken jade than a broken one - nìng kě yù suì,bù néng wǎ quán
Three days after parting, we should treat each other with new eyes - shì bié sān rì,dāng guā mù xiāng dài
advance by an inch but retreat by a foot -- to lose much more than what one gets - jǐn cùn tuì chǐ
run hither and thither like rats and wolves - shǔ cuàn láng bēn
Food for the West and sleep for the East - xī shí dōng mián