cowardly

cowardly

Greed for life and hatred for death is an idiom, pronounced t ā NSH ē NGW ù s ǐ, which means greed for survival and fear of death.

interpretation

Love to live, fear to die. It is the same as "being greedy for life and fearing death".

source

According to the biography of Sima Qian in the book of Han Dynasty, "Madame is greedy for life and evil for death. She reads about her relatives and takes care of her wife. If she doesn't, she has to."

Examples

Jiao Hong of the Ming Dynasty wrote in Yu Tang Cong Yu Xing Yi: "I am greedy for life and evil for death, and I will not give in to injustice."