孔融让梨
Traditional form:
孔融讓梨
Pinyin (reading):
Kǒng Róngrànglí
Definitions:
- Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 ( Kǒng Róng) picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
Characters:
- 孔 - opening, hole, orifice; great
- 融 - to melt, to fuse; to blend, to harmonize
- 让 - to allow, to permit, to yield
- 梨 - pear; opera
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