The past and the present

The past and the present

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j í g ǔ Qi ó NGJ ī n, which means to exhaust the past and the present. It comes from Song Ye Shi's offering to Xue Zi Shu Wen.

The origin of Idioms

"Zhu Zi Yu Lei" volume 95: "the temperament of Bing, although there are good and evil differences, but the extreme ancient poor today theory, then the nature is not bad."

Idiom usage

Used as an attributive or adverbial; used in writing.

Examples

It's a long way to go. Song · Ye Shi's "memorial to Xue Zi Shu Wen"