孔融让梨
孔融让梨
Kǒng Róng ràng lí
Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
Traditional: 孔融讓梨
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- Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
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Related Words
孔融(Kǒng Róng)— Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period
→大闹天宫(Dà nào Tiān gōng)— Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven, story about the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空[Sun1 Wu4 kong1] from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
→仲尼(Zhòng ní)— courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
→孔乙己(Kǒng Yǐ jǐ)— Kong Yiji, protagonist of short story by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]
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