Allusions:
When Wen Yanbo heard that Ji Li was very arrogant, he was very unhappy. He said to people, "Ji Li's father used to be my master, so he should be my junior by seniority. He is so arrogant that I have to teach him a lesson. " On one occasion, Wen Yanbo was stationed in Beijing. When Ji Li heard about this, he came to offer his condolences.
Wen Yanbo deliberately let Ji Li sit in the living room, and it took a long time to come out to meet him. After meeting Ji Li, Wen Yanbo said, "Your father is my friend. Please make eight obeisances to me." Due to his junior qualifications, Ji Li dared not expect anything, so he had to make eight obeisances to Wen Yanbo. Wen Yanbo lost Ji Li's pride as an elder.
The idiom "Eight Worship Friends" came into being. Later, people used "eight sworn brothers friendship" to express the courtesy of two generations of friendly disciples when they met each other's elders. In the old days, they were also called sworn brothers with different surnames.
Extended data 1, source:
In Song Dynasty, Shao Bowen recorded "Foreword": "I came to Beijing, and Ji Li received me. After a long time, I was persuaded by the public and said,' And my father is a guest, only eight times. "If you don't get millet, you should worship it."
After Wen Yanbo arrived in Beijing, he visited Ji Li. He was a guest for a long time. You came out in the clothes of a Taoist priest and said to him,' My father's friends only worshipped eight times.' Ji Li had to pay tribute to Wen Yanbo according to the number.
2. Later expansion:
The friendship between eight worshippers is an old social custom in China. Later, the eight-worship loyalty refers to Guan Bao, confidant, awkward neck, laying down his life, glue paint, chicken millet, forgetting friends, and making friends with life and death.