Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
brink horse late pull reins
When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins
cold pine season
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens
amidst chickens flock standing
A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens
hollow mind mountain open returns sounds vacant
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds
duck flight flock fly leads wild
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
common hall sweep
There is no one to sweep a common hall
forget root tree
To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root