JLPT N1Proverbs
衣食足りて礼節を知る
- Meaning
- 生活が満ち足りて初めて人は礼儀や節度をわきまえる
- Explanation
- A teaching that only once material life is stable can people turn their hearts to manners and morals. Unlike c2, which compares the priority of food/clothing and propriety, or c4, which advocates propriety amid poverty, the point here is the causal order that 「food and clothing come first」.
Original Japanese explanation
物質的な暮らしが安定して初めて、人は礼儀や道徳に心を向けられるという教訓。衣食と礼節の優先順位を比べる c2 や、貧しさの中での礼節を説く c4 とは逆で、ここでは「衣食が先」という因果の順序が要点です。
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