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Becoming sworn brothers is an idiom in China, pronounced as bài bǎ xiōng dì, which means that friends are brothers with different surnames.

Source: Levin's Biography of Hu Xueyan to the Top: "One is me ~, please ask Master Wang to cultivate it."

Synonym: sworn brothers

Antonym: none

Two-part allegorical saying: Liu of Three Kingdoms

English: Friends become sworn brothers.

Grammar: as subject, object and attribute; I used to make friends between different surnames.

Extended data

Kowtowing and becoming sworn brothers is a brotherly relationship between peers, called Jin Lan.

It originated from the story of "Three Marriages in Taoyuan" in the Three Kingdoms Period, in which Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became brothers. Later, people worshipped it, and then imitated it, that is, people with similar interests and similar personalities hit it off with each other and formed a brotherly relationship through certain forms, caring for each other, supporting each other and helping each other in life, and taking care of each other when encountering difficulties.

Over time, it has evolved into a kind of etiquette custom with humanistic color. This is the sublimation of friendship, the freezing of social relations, which runs through the Confucian thought of "righteousness" and fills the relationship between family and friendship. It is a special social interpersonal relationship.