the coming days would be long

the coming days would be long

It's a long way to go. It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is l á IR ì f ā ngch á ng, which means that the future is still very long. It comes from Yunyan book with Hong Ruiming written by Wen Tianxiang of Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Wen Tianxiang of Song Dynasty wrote in Yunyan book with Hong Ruiming: "after a certain Li County, he was quite at peace with the people of the county. He could harvest early and ripen moderately, feel the wind and rain as scheduled, and hope for late rice, but he would strive for continuous grazing and have a long future."

Idiom usage

I'd like to see this pass. It's going to be a long time. What I can tell the children may be more than that in the future "The future is like the sea, and the future is long." On Young China by Liang Qichao in Qing Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym boundless future, great prospects antonym the end of the day, the end of the day, life is short, time is short