take pleasure in the welfare of living things(hào shēng zhī dé)

take pleasure in the welfare of living things

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h à OSH à ngzh à D é, which means to have the virtue of cherishing life and not killing. From the book of history dayumo.

Notes on Idioms

Haosheng: cherish the living.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of history, dayumo said, "it's better to lose than to live up to death. The virtue of loving life is in accordance with the people's will."

Idiom usage

It is formal; it is subject and object; it has commendatory meaning. Example: Liang yungou's preface to yuan jiehuan and Jin Da Sima's command to return to Jin by biography in Ming Dynasty: "it's not enough to help solve the problem of network and mend the virtue of life." I should have killed you. God has the virtue to live a good life. I'll forgive you. I won't allow you to play again. The second part of monkey listening to Sutra by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : hào shēng zhī dé