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jiē lái zhī shí
chūn qiū shí dài yǒu nián guó
shēng huāng
yǒu wèi jiào zuò qián áo yǒu qián guì
zài jiē biān zhǔn bèi shí fēn
gěi lái wǎng de nán mín xiǎn
shì de kāng kǎi
yǒu mín yòng xiù méng
zháo liǎn tuō zháo xié è yǎn
饿
jīng zhēng kāi de yáng màn
màn zǒu guò lái
qián áo jiàn le jiù zuǒ shǒu zháo
chī de yòu shǒu pěng zháo de
xiàng hǎn dào wèi lái chī
ba
rén tīng zhè huà dèng
zháo yǎn jīng shuō dào jiù
shì yīn wèi chī jiē lái zhī shí
cái è dào zhè bān de
饿
"
jǐn guǎn qián áo xiàng dào qiàn
rén réng rán jiān jué chī zhōng
è le
饿
shì jiǎng de shì huái yǒu
怀
qiáng liè zūn xīn de rén níng
è kěn jiē shòu rén qīng shì
饿
xiàn zài zhè chéng fàn zhǐ dài
yǒu xìng de shī shè
One year during the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋时期,770-476 BC), there was a the Qi State (齐国) was severely strickend by a famine.
Qian Ao (qián ào 黔敖), a very rich but arrogant man took the occasion to showcase his generosity through preparing food by the roadside and giving it to the passing refugees in charity.
A man with shabby clothes happened to walk by with his shoes trailing along, he was so hungry as not to open his eyes.
Seeing the poor man, Qian Ao held the food by left hand and the drink by right hand, and shouted at him,"Hi, come to eat !”
Hearing the word, the man glared his eyes and said, “It is because I am not willing to eat the food handed out in contempt that I have been famished to such a degree. "
Though Qian Ao made an apology to him for that, the man still resolutely refused to eat the food and thus he died of hunger in the end.
This set phrase now extensively denotes the disrespectful aims. This story means that a person who has a strong sense of self-respect would rather die of hunger than be despised.
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