Time is short and heart is long

Time is short and heart is long

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R ì Du ǎ nx ī NCH á ng, which means less time, more things you want to do in your heart, which means that it is difficult to realize your wish for a while. It comes from the book with Li Gaotang and Chen Jiemei written by Huang Zongxi in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Explanation: less time, more things you want to do in your heart. A wish that is difficult to fulfill for a while.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: in the book with Li Gaotang and Chen Jiemei written by Huang Zongxi of the Qing Dynasty, it is said that "it is only the ambition of danzhong's life, and he is not content with the nine grades, so the inscription says that the time is short and the mind is long, and the body and name will be stripped, so it's very sad."

Discrimination of words

Usage: used as object and attribute; used of people's wishes