Respect the time and love the day
Respect the time and love the day, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j à ngsh í à IR à, meaning to cherish time. It comes from Shangnong, the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.
The origin of Idioms
Shangnong, the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family: "therefore, to respect the time and love the day is not to stop old age, not to stop disease, not to die."
Idiom usage
Used as an object or attribute; used in writing
Respect the time and love the day
be neither extravagant nor thrifty - bù fēng bù jiǎn
one who , though retaining family ties , observes all the monastic rules - zài jiā chū jiā
perpetrate whatever evils one pleases - zì yì wàng xíng