living a life of ease and leisure

living a life of ease and leisure

Youyouzai, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ō uz ā iy ó uz ā I, which means life is leisurely and carefree. It comes from the book of songs · Xiaoya · Caishu.

Notes on Idioms

Youyou: a leisurely look.

The origin of Idioms

"The book of songs · Xiaoya · Caishu" says, "you are leisurely, you are also violent."

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute, adverbial; refers to leisurely. In Han Guotai's answer to friends and advice to be an official, it is said that "if Yan Xiu is not a God, Yu Xin is an old man, and you can have a good time, and you will die." One of the poems of yonghuai written by Wei Ruan Ji of the Three Kingdoms: "you are so leisurely, so you live here." qiu Xing Fu by Pan Yue of Jin Dynasty: carefree in mountains and rivers, open in the world. You can't wait to die. Song Sushi's view of chess: "it's gratifying to win, but it's also gratifying to lose. You have a good time Lu Xun's qijieting essays II: Hermit: a famous hermit always has the happiness of "having a leisurely life and dying". "Poetry" said: youyouzai, liaoyisui. I don't know In Zuozhuan, the 21st year of Xianggong, it is said that Shuxiang, a man, said: "if Zi is separated from sin, is he ignorant of it?" Uncle Xiang said, "what about death?