in the ascendant

in the ascendant

The sun rises and the moon lasts, a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is R ì sh ē ngyu è g è ng, which means just as the sun just rises and the moon begins to string. It refers to the time when things are flourishing. In the old days, it was often used as a blessing. From the book of songs Xiaoya Tianbao.

Notes on Idioms

Heng: the sound "Geng", the first string of the moon.

The origin of Idioms

"Book of songs · Xiaoya · Tianbao": as constant as the moon, as rising as the sun.

Idiom usage

It refers to the time when things are just flourishing. Examples GUI Youguang's "Zhenchuan Ji · preface to Shaofu's poem of Duke Chen's 60th birthday" in Ming Dynasty: virtue advances with age, like the rising of the sun and the constant of the moon.