Idiomatic couplet: listen to his words and ask what is the next couplet

Etymology Listen to his words and watch his actions

Pronunciation tīng qí yán ér guān qí xíng

Interpretation Listen to his words, but also watch his actions. Don't just listen to what he says, but also look at what he actually does.

Origin The Analects of Confucius - Gongye Chang (论语-公冶长)："Today, I listen to what people say and watch what they do."

Example Cai Dongfan (蔡东藩)《民国通俗演义》第一三一回："Self-thought that the world could be deceived, listening to his words and observing his actions, not knowing that his lungs and liver were as if he saw them."

Story During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius led his disciples to travel around the world, and after escaping from Chen to Cai, he didn't get the reuse of Cai, and he often lamented, "I eat all day long, but I don't use my time", and one day he found that his disciple Zaiyu was still sleeping at noon, and he was furious and said that Zaiyu was a rotten wood that could not be carved, and his disciples rushed to comfort Confucius, who said that in the future, "Listen to his words and observe his behavior. Listen to his words and observe his behavior, good for you. [1]

So the next couplet is to observe his behavior

I hope to adopt!