Top 10 Chinese Proverbs about...friendship

Hello again Gentle Reader. China is famous for its proverbs. Confucius wrote a great many of them and even today 2500 years after he died. He is still a powerful force in the Chinese psyche.

The proverbs below are not all from Confucius but they represent how the Chinese feel about friendship.

Friendship is one of the Core Socialist Values.

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Only when the years grows cold do we see that the pine and cypress are the last to fade; only when we get into trouble do we know who our genuine friends are.

Men of totally different principles can never act together.

Just as a fence has to be built with pegs, an able person needs the help of three others.

Travel a thousand miles to bestow a goose feather— a small gift may be a token of profound friendship.


A bosom friend afar brings distant lands near.

Birds of a feather flock together, people of a mind fall into the same group.

You shall know a person by knowing his friends.

The best mirror is a friend’s eyes.

Old friends and old wine are best.

Gold is easy to get, a close friend is harder to find.

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