guard against losing one 's temper and repress one 's sexual passion(chéng fèn zhì yù)

guard against losing one 's temper and repress one 's sexual passion

The Chinese idiom, CH é NGF è nzh ù y ù, means to restrain anger. It comes from the book of changes.

The origin of Idioms

Yi Shang: "a gentleman stifles his desire by punishing his anger." Kong yingdashu: "the gentleman uses the law to damage the Tao, to punish the anger, to stifle the lust Punish the past, stifle the future. It is also a matter of intertextuality

Idiom usage

It's a combination; it's a predicate; it's a restraint. Example: Yuan Hong of the Jin Dynasty wrote in the second chapter of Shun Di Ji of the later Han Dynasty: "may your majesty think about what you have seen, review the past and lead the old, so as not to make the punishment and moral power not be broken by heaven, punish anger and stifle desire, and do things according to the ritual system."

Chinese PinYin : chéng fèn zhì yù