{"id":4479,"date":"2019-11-19T03:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/dao-bu-tong-bu-xiang-wei-mou-dao4bu4tong2bu4xiang1wei2mou2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T03:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:22:35","slug":"dao-bu-tong-bu-xiang-wei-mou-dao4bu4tong2bu4xiang1wei2mou2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/dao-bu-tong-bu-xiang-wei-mou-dao4bu4tong2bu4xiang1wei2mou2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u9053\u4e0d\u540c\u4e0d\u76f8\u4e3a\u8c0b \u2013 dao4bu4tong2bu4xiang1wei2mou2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal meaning of each character &ndash; road\/path &ndash; not &ndash; same &ndash; not &ndash; mutually &ndash; for\/do\/accomplish &ndash; idea\/plan\/scheme<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One dictio<em><\/em>nary defines this Ancient Chinese Proverb as &ldquo;people with different principles will not make common cause&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My understanding of this proverb is to  do with people&rsquo;s outlooks on life and life goals.&nbsp; I most often use this  proverb when talking a<em><\/em>bout marriage.&nbsp; If 2 people don&rsquo;t have the same  or similar goals in life they aren&rsquo;t compatible for marriage.&nbsp; It  doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean one person is better than the other, they just  simply aren&rsquo;t compatible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This might be something one could use in  order to break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend in a nice way.&nbsp; I have  never tried it myself, but it would be a logical usage.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a nice  way to say &ldquo;we aren&rsquo;t compatible&rdquo;, o<em><\/em>nly if what you are saying is true  of course.&nbsp; You would have to be on a different &ldquo;path&rdquo; then your soon to  be ex-partner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basically any situation wher you have  different goals or different life paths, so working or being together  will not accomplish anything of mutual benefit, in fact it may make life  harder and therefore it&rsquo;s better to part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1267728239\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literal meaning of each character &ndash; road\/path &ndash; not &ndash; same &ndash; not &ndash; mutually &ndash; for\/do\/accomplish &ndash; idea\/plan\/scheme<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-ancient-chinese"],"views":200,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}