final judgement

final judgement

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g à IGU à nd à NGL à n, meaning that a person's merits and demerits can only be concluded after death. It comes from the epitaph of Xinwu Lvjun, the Minister of justice of Jiayi in Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the epitaph of LV Jun, the left servant of the punishment Department of Jiayi doctor of the Ming Dynasty, written by LV Kun of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that "good and evil are in me, reputation is destroyed by others, and the final judgment is made by the coffin, which is not based on the begging words of the descendants.

Analysis of Idioms

Close synonym: it's decided to cover the coffin, it's decided to cover the coffin

Idiom usage

It is often used in figurative sentences. It's not too late to make a final conclusion. The second one is Zhang Huangyan's three poems about Jiachen in prison in September of the Ming Dynasty, and Han Yu's poem tongguanxia of the Tang Dynasty: "if you go on, it's impossible. It's time to cover the coffin." In the biography of Zheng Xi in the book of Wei, it is said that "when the coffin is covered, the posthumous title will be determined. First, it will become a form of canonization. Then, it will inspire the clear and turbid, and govern the way and model."