choose a master to serve
The Chinese idiom Li á ngq í NZ é m ù in pinyin means that a sage chooses his master to do what he wants. From Zuo Zhuan, the eleventh year of AI Gong.
The origin of Idioms
"The eleventh year of AI Gong" in Zuo Zhuan: "birds choose wood, how can wood choose birds."
Idiom usage
It refers to the sage's choice of subject. How can we not hear that "when we live, we should choose our subjects". It is not the husband who meets the master of the matter and loses it. The fourteenth chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty
choose a master to serve
Learn to read and learn to play - xué shū xué jiàn
sport with the wind and play with the moon -- seek pleasure - cháo fēng nòng yuè
old in age but vigorous in mind - fà duǎn xīn cháng