A gentleman never forgets his roots. Don't forget the friendship between the poor and the poor. What do you mean the scum's wife won't leave the court?

Literal translation of vernacular Chinese: A true gentleman cannot forget his roots. A friend in poverty should not forget or abandon his wife in adversity.

Don't forget, this sentence originally came from Yue Quanzhuan on March 2: "Marshal An likes tofu best, because he got up after eating tofu when he took a quiz in Neihuang County, Daming Prefecture, Hebei Province. He said that a gentleman never forgets his roots. Therefore, I like tofu best. "

It means that when you succeed, you won't forget the people who helped you before, and you can't forget the reasons for your success.

The friendship between the poor and the poor should not be forgotten, and the wife of the dross should not stay in court. From "The History of the Later Han Dynasty Song Hongchuan": I can't forget what I know about poverty, and the wife of the dross can't stay in the court.

The original source of this idiom is "poor knowledge can't be forgotten, poor wife can't leave the court", but now it is often used as "poor friendship can't be forgotten. The difference between" knowledge "and" friendship "extends from the loyal feelings between husband and wife to friends and relatives, especially" poor friendship can't be forgotten ",which is most commonly used to describe the feelings between friends.

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Yue Quanzhuan is called Quanzhuan, also known as Zhuan. It is a heroic and legendary novel with a certain historical romance created by Qing Dynasty novelists Qian Cai and Jin Feng.

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty is a biographical history book that records the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, compiled by Ye Fan, a historian in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. They are called "the first four histories" together with Historical Records, Hanshu and The History of the Three Kingdoms. The book is divided into ten biographies, eighty biographies and eight chronicles (excerpted from Sima Biao's Book of Continued Han Dynasty), which mainly describes the historical events from the first year of Jianwu (25 years) of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the twenty-fifth year of Jian 'an of Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty (220 years), totaling 195.

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The friendship between the poor and the poor should not be forgotten, and the wives of the dross should not stay.