Ten sleeps and nine sits

Ten sleeps and nine sits

Shi Mian Jiu Zuo, a Chinese idiom, is sh í mi á NJI ǔ zuॸin Pinyin, which means to lie down while sitting. It is difficult to support a patient. It comes from the third volume of Xing Shi Heng Yan by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty.

The idiom comes from the third volume of Xing Shi Heng Yan written by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty: "at the beginning, father and son were very good at sitting in the shop. Later, because of his lumbago, he was very sleepy and could not work hard. He recruited another man, Xing Quan, to help each other in the shop."