develop one 's moral being and lead a virtuous life
Bath Body Bath virtue, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ǎ OSH ē NY ù D é, meaning to cultivate body and mind, make pure and innocent, from the book of rites · Confucianism.
The origin of Idioms
Dai Sheng's book of rites, Confucian practice in the Western Han Dynasty: "Confucian have bath body and bath virtue."
Idiom usage
He Shi; as predicate and attribute; with commendatory meaning. When the sun is gone and the moon is gone, the time has passed. What will be the best way to take a bath? (records of the Three Kingdoms · Wei Zhi · biography of Guan Ning) (2) when the sages evade the world and sing the canon and the grave, they just encourage greed, encourage competition and bathe in virtue. (Biography of Gao Shi by Xie Qi jingling Wang Jiao, written by Liang Shenyue, Southern Dynasty)
develop one 's moral being and lead a virtuous life
a dragon 's head and a snake 's tail - lóng tóu shé wěi