go with the stream

go with the stream

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Su í f à ngzh ú L à ng, which means to run around and travel with the tide. It comes from the merchant by Wu Rong of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Wu Rong's "merchant" poem: "go with the wind and waves, farewell year after year, but laugh."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing. The fourth act of Guo Moruo's the tiger's Amulet: "if people are not calm, they are like duckweeds on the water and the fallen leaves in the air. They have to go with the wind and the waves."