Meaning: A gentleman who is modest and prudent, can be strict with himself, and has a noble character is as gentle and pleasant as jade.
1. A modest gentleman: refers to a person who is modest and prudent, can strictly demand himself, and has a noble character.
Source: "Yi Qian": "A humble gentleman is humble enough to shepherd himself."
Interpretation: "A humble gentleman" can be modest even in a humble position. Self-restraint in attitude; not relaxing in moral character because of inferiority.
2. Gentle as jade: describes a man's gentle personality and the pleasant feeling he brings to people around him.
From "Guo Feng·Qin Feng·Xiao Rong" there is "Missing a gentleman, warming him like jade."
Explanation: Missing my husband is a good character, gentle like jade.
Extended information:
"A humble gentleman, as gentle as jade" is the spiritual temperament and inner cultivation respected by traditional Chinese culture, and the unkempt living habits and reckless and vulgar ways of doing things are , that kind of frivolous, exaggerated and pretentious behavior has always been abandoned by people.
There are many descriptions of a gentleman's character in ancient classics, such as "a gentleman is harmonious but different". The most talked about is the sentence in Jin Yong's "The Book of Swords and Enmities": "A humble gentleman is gentle and gentle." Jade". This is the grace and grace of a gentleman.
A humble gentleman, as gentle as jade. A gentleman uses jade as a symbol of virtue, and a gentleman must wear jade. A gentleman will never leave his body without jade. Once upon a time, jade had a profound relationship with the world, from ancient times to the present, year after year. Not only did the king wear jade, but even the seal that symbolized the supreme imperial power was carved from beautiful jade and was given a beautiful name - Jade Seal. Princes and grandsons wear jade, swordsmen and Confucian scholars wear jade, beautiful women wear jade, and common people wear jade with pink and rouge.