one is even willing to die in the evening if he could hear the truth in the morning(zhāo wén xī sǐ)

one is even willing to die in the evening if he could hear the truth in the morning

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ā ow é nx ī s ǐ, which means to hear in the morning and die at night. To describe an urgent pursuit of truth or belief. From the Analects of Confucius · Liren.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Li Ren said, "when you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening."

Idiom usage

It is an urgent pursuit of truth. example the ancients paid much attention to the morning and the evening, but the future of Kuang Jun was fair. ——In the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu · Zi Xin, Zhou Chu and Li Zhi's answer to the short book on women's learning Tao in Ming Dynasty: "if you want to learn the way of the world, do you want to be a person of the old Buddha of Sakyamuni and sage of Confucius?" Wang Shizhen of the Qing Dynasty wrote: "I serve the country with my death, and I feel very happy. There is no such thing as death in the morning and in the evening. "

Chinese PinYin : zhāo wén xī sǐ