什么客人面子这么大 非得让我们这四体不勤
“Who's this important guest that even our Lord Fan Qi— who neither exercises”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你是卖锅的亲爹吧 不是 我就想泡茶嘛 你说这
“you must be a pot seller's best customer. Well, I just wanted to make tea. I didn't expect it to end up like this.”
什么客人 面子 这么大 非得让 我们这 四体不勤
“Who's this important guest that even our Lord Fan Qi— who neither exercises”
“nor knows his crops, has to make tea for them himself?”
“Who on earth could make a lazy person like you actually get up and brew tea?”
Hosting rituals like serving high-quality tea personally reflect the amount of 'face' or social respect accorded to the visitor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having so much prestige or influence
Used idiomatically to describe someone whose status or favor warrants exceptional treatment.
not lifting a finger; physically lazy
The first half of a famous Confucian idiom describing an intellectual who avoids manual labor.
