A long time
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Ku à NgR à J à Gu à, which means time-honored. It comes from the preface to the Wu manuscript of planting lotus seeds.
The origin of Idioms
According to Zhang Juzheng's preface to the Wu Wu manuscript of planting lotus seeds in the Ming Dynasty, "if the sundial lasts for a long time, the lead knife will be effective in cutting, and the horse will be thousands of miles away. So it's better to be clumsy and quick than to be clever. "
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: protracted, protracted, protracted
Idiom usage
Used as an object, attribute, adverbial, etc.
A long time
be very hard up , and in fact ) be at a loose end - shí guāi yùn zhuō
holding the classics and making inquiries -- inquiries of pupils - zhí jīng wèn nán
be of noble character and high prestige - dé zūn wàng zhòng