carefully attend to the funeral rites of parents and follow them when gone with due sacrifices

carefully attend to the funeral rites of parents and follow them when gone with due sacrifices

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh è nzh ō ngzhu ī Yu ǎ n, which means to handle parents' funerals cautiously and offer sacrifices to ancestors. Later, it also means to be cautious and remember the past. From the Analects of Confucius.

Idiom explanation

End: people die; far: ancestors. It used to refer to carefully handling parents' funerals and devoutly offering sacrifices to distant ancestors. Later, it also means to be cautious and remember the past.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Xueer: "Zengzi said," be careful in the end and pursue the future, and the people's morality will be thick. " Zeng Zi said: "to treat the death of parents cautiously and to remember their ancestors for a long time will naturally cultivate honest people."

Idiom usage

Example: in front of the main hall of the five rooms, there is a plaque filled with a noisy dragon, which reads "be cautious in the end and pursue the future". The 53rd chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty