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What did the cold door mean in ancient times?
Born in a poor family.

The cold door comes from Ling Xuan's "Book of Jin" Volume 4 Liu Yichuan: "The top grade has no cold door, and the bottom grade has no potential home." Interpretation: In this way, high-level officials have no talents from lower levels, and low-level officials have no people from rich and powerful families.

Sentence: Although he comes from a poor family, his father will support him to go to school with the money he earned from hard work. Their stories are shocking and make students from poor families hold their heads high.

Cloth clothes are also called "cold door" and "cold home". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, families that did not belong to the gentry were mostly ordinary small and medium-sized landlords. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the appearance of the imperial examination, the gentry declined, and the humble family generally refers to the poor family.

Antonym: giant

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(1) According to ancient legends, the north is extremely cold. "The Songs of Chu Travel Far": "The festival of Shu and He is very luxurious and boundless."

There is only one word in the cold door: poverty. Poor to despair, poor to have no cure, poor to have problems in daily life.

Network famous saying: poverty is also a disease, which can't be cured like cancer. This is a cold door. There is also an unpopular door that we have never found. It is the kind of family that is hungry and has no room for improvement. In those days, no one would come out to work hard after eating.

Thus, there are two essential differences between the poor and the rich: the thickness of economic strength and the level of intellectual thinking. Both are indispensable, otherwise it will naturally put on the curse of being rich for three generations. This is called: cold door.