叔公打死谢家血脉 就对得起列祖列宗了？
“By killing a Xie descendant, will you answer to our ancestors?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
留着祠堂有何用？
“what do we need the hall for?”
叔公 打死 谢家血脉 就 对得起 列祖列宗 了？
“By killing a Xie descendant, will you answer to our ancestors?”
九弟
“Yanlai.”
“You claim to uphold family honor, but killing your own kin is an ultimate disgrace to our ancestors—stop now.”
In traditional clan governance, elders wield great power, but their ultimate moral constraint is not dishonoring or extinguishing the family bloodline before the ancestors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be worthy of; to do justice to; to not let down
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to evoke moral duty, conscience, or gratitude toward someone.
ancestors; forefathers
A formal idiom used in traditional contexts or dramatic speeches invoking family lineage.
Marks the rhetorical question as presenting a completed state of moral failure.
