travel during the day and sleep at night

travel during the day and sleep at night

Xiao Xing Ye Su is a Chinese idiom, pronounced Xi ǎ ox í ngy è s ù, which means to get up early in the morning and stay at night; it describes a hard journey. From the Duke of Chu Zhao.

Idiom explanation

Xiao: dawn.

The origin of Idioms

Zheng Tingyu's first book of Chu Zhaogong in Yuan Dynasty: "I hope you'll stay late at dawn."

Idiom usage

To describe a long journey. In Lu Xun's new stories, Caiwei: "the two righteous men were afraid of Huashan, so they discussed again, turned north, begged for food, and finally arrived at Shouyang mountain." In the ninth chapter of Wu Chengen's journey to the West in the Ming Dynasty, "the prime minister ordered to leave the court, that is to say, he ordered troops to the religious center and headed for Jiangzhou. The stars are falling and the birds are flying. I don't realize that I have arrived in Jiangzhou. " Chapter 34 of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of scholars in the Qing Dynasty: "Zhuang Shaoguang crossed the Yellow River by water, hired a car, stayed up at night, and went all the way to Shandong." Chapter 77 of three chivalrous men and five righteousness by Shi Yukun of the Qing Dynasty: the journey on the road is nothing more than the eight characters of "walking in the morning and sleeping in the night, thirsty for food and drink". There is nothing to remember along the way. Chapter 99 of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "it is said that Jia Zheng brought some friends who were invited in Beijing to spend the night and the morning. One day, when he came to the province, he met his superior. He went to visit India and served as a patient, so he checked the grain warehouses of each prefecture and county."