day and night

day and night

Day after day, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ y è J ì R ì, meaning to use the time of night to connect the day, day and night. It comes from the first knowledge of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] day and night, burn plaster after sundial, all night long, forget sleep and food

Idiom usage

"Poor families borrow books, day and night, and the ancients steal books from the market, which is almost impossible." (Wang Zun, biography of Tang gifted scholars by Xin Wenfang, Yuan Dynasty)

The origin of Idioms

Lu's spring and Autumn Annals, Xianzhi: "the custom of Zhongshan is to take day as night and day after day. Men and women should lean on each other and have no rest."