start at dawn and arrive at dusk(zhāo fā xī zhì)

start at dawn and arrive at dusk

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is "zh" of "X" zh ", which means to start in the morning and arrive at night. It describes a short distance or convenient transportation. It's from shuijingzhu. Water injection.

The origin of Idioms

Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in shuijingzhu Shuishui: "sometimes the king's orders were announced in a hurry, and the emperor Bai was sent to Jiangling in the evening."

Analysis of Idioms

A stone's throw away

Idiom usage

The distance between the two places is close. In Han Yu's "sacrifice to crocodiles", it is said that "with raw food, the crocodile will start in the morning and arrive in the evening." defend the border and sea, transport guns and guns, day and night. Gaoyang's the history of the palace of the Qing Dynasty (Volume I) Chu Yuan's Lisao at the end of the Warring States Period: "the Dynasty started in Tianjin, and the evening ended in Xiji." Chapter 35 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "Qin and Jin border on each other, and they arrive in the morning and in the evening."

Chinese PinYin : zhāo fā xī zhì