Liang Shang Jun Zi (A Gentleman on the Beam)
Ru Mu San Fen (To Enter Three-Tenths of an Inch into the Timber)
Dui Niu Tan Qin (Playing the Lute to a Cow)
Too Ashamed to Face the Elders East of the Yangtze |
In the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) there was a man called Chen Shi. One night, a thief slipped into his room. Hiding above the beam, the thief waited for Chen Shi to go to sleep. Chen Shi, noticing the thief, called his children and grandchildren together, saying, "To be a man one should have aspirations. Evildoers are not born evil. But if one gets used to doing evil things, it will be hard to reform. The gentleman above the beam is such a man." The thief, hearing this, hurriedly jumped down and knelt on the ground to beg forgiveness. This idiom is used to refer to a thief. |
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