{"id":12125,"date":"2019-11-19T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/be-true-to-one-039-s-word-yi-qian-jin\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:28:47","slug":"be-true-to-one-039-s-word-yi-qian-jin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/be-true-to-one-039-s-word-yi-qian-jin\/","title":{"rendered":"Be True to One&#039;s Word \u4e00\u8afe\u5343\u91d1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Chinese idiom \u4e00\u8afe\u5343\u91d1 (yi1 nuo4 qian1 jin1) literally means the promise is weightier than one thousand taels of gold. It comes from a story a<em><\/em>bout Ji Bu, a well known chief officer of the imperial bodyguards in the court of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC &#8211; AD 24).<\/p>\n<p>  Ji&#8217;s claim to fame was his mastery or martial arts and his commitment to perso<em><\/em>nal ho<em><\/em>nour and loyalty. As a young man, Ji joined the rebel army fighting against the rule of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). After the collapse of the Qin regime, Ji survived a number of trumped up charges against him and became the chief officer of the imperial bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>  Ji remained an outspoken critic against corruption and bad policies. One day, he openly advised his friends to distance themselves from Cao Qiusheng, a silver to<em><\/em>ngued aide in the court. News of this eventually reach Cao, so the aide approached Ji to discuss the matter. Cao said:<\/p>\n<p>  I cannot understand what makes me such a loathesome person in your eyes. You are from the Chu area like me. Everyone in that area, including me, holds you in high regard due to your commitment to perso<em><\/em>nal ho<em><\/em>nour and loyalty. We all say that &quot;a promise made by Ji Bu is weighter than one thousand taels of gold.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  Cao&#8217;s flattery changed Ji&#8217;s attitude toward him. Ji came to respect Cao and later the two became good friends.<\/p>\n<p>  The English idioms be true to one&#8217;s words and one&#8217;s word is one&#8217;s bond have a meaning that is equivalent to the Chinese idiom \u4e00\u8afe\u5343\u91d1 (yi1 nuo4 qian1 jin1).<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2388059463\"><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>The Chinese idiom \u4e00\u8afe\u5343\u91d1 (yi1 nuo4 qian1 jin1) literally means the promise is weightier than one thousand taels of gold.<\/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":[4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-12125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":160,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}