孔融让梨

孔融讓梨
Kǒng Róngrànglí
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

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Entry Composition

1 孔融 Kǒng Róng Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period
2 让梨 rànglí
  1. (figurative) to subordinate oneself to elders
  2. (literary) to yield the pear; to leave (the biggest) pears (for others to eat)
  3. to subordinate oneself to elders
  4. to yield the pear; to leave (the biggest) pears (for others to eat)