nourish the living and bury the dead -- do one 's duty

nourish the living and bury the dead -- do one 's duty

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ò NGW ǎ ngsh ì J ū, which means to bury the dead and support the living. From Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of Duke Fu

Analysis of Idioms

To see you off

The origin of Idioms

Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of the Duke of Fu, said: "when you are sent to work and live, you have no guess, but you are still chaste."

Idiom usage

It means to bury the dead and support the living. We should never lose our father when we are young, but never cry for our son when we are old. ——Chen Liang, Song Dynasty