1, give someone a rose, and the hand has a lingering fragrance.
Meaning: When we give beautiful flowers to people, we will naturally reap the lasting fragrance of flowers. It is often used to describe that giving will make you happy. When you help others succeed, you will naturally get feedback while helping others.
Source: An old saying from India: Holding a rose will last forever. The English expression is "the rose in her hand, the taste in my hand ..."
I am willing to help people in peacetime, and someone will help me in an emergency.
It means: you are willing to help others at ordinary times, and someone will help you in case of emergency. This sentence means that you will lend a helping hand at the first time when others are in trouble, and someone will help you in an emergency. This means that everything you give will be rewarded. You should always be ready to help others, no matter how small the good thing is, because one good thing deserves another.
Source: Folk Proverbs
3, rather than icing on the cake, it is better to send charcoal in the snow.
Meaning: icing on the cake, when others are in the scenery, sending flowers is tantamount to flattery, and others may not remember your kindness.
Giving timely help is when others are in trouble and in great need. When you lend a helping hand, others will remember it. China people have always had the grace of dripping water and the virtue of returning.
Source: Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's poem "Snow to Send Charcoal, Mustard to Hide": "Don't send charcoal in the snow, just talk about the scenery."
If you don't give charcoal in difficult times, the artistic conception and poetry created will seem reluctant and artificial.
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And "give a rose, the hand has a lingering fragrance." "I am willing to help people at ordinary times, and someone will help me in case of emergency." "It is better to give charcoal in the snow than to add icing on the cake." These three proverbs have similar meanings:
To be loved, you must love first.
Meaning: If you want to love yourself, you must love others first.
Source: "Mandarin in this four" "If you want others to love yourself, you must first love others; If you want others to follow you, you must follow first. "
Translation: it means that if people want to love themselves, they must love others first; People should obey themselves, first of all, others.