1. To get gold by showing off sleeves: a metaphor for being honest and not accepting bribes.
2. Bingbo Qiuyue: a metaphor for a person’s moral integrity.
3. Fairness and integrity: refers to being honest and serving the public and not following personal feelings.
4. Frugality can nourish integrity: Frugality means frugality; Lian means integrity. Frugality fosters integrity.
5. Lian Bugui: Lian: clean; Gui: cut, stab. It has edges so as not to cut others. It is a metaphor for a person who is honest and generous.
6. Breeze on both sleeves: There is nothing in the sleeves except the breeze. It is a metaphor for being an honest official. It is also a metaphor for being so poor that you have nothing.
7. Taige is popular: Taige: the office of the Minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It generally refers to the serious atmosphere of government ministers in the cabinet. A metaphor for official integrity.