both parents are alive and well(chūn xuān bìng mào)

both parents are alive and well

Chinese idiom, CH ū nxu ā Nb ì NGM à o in pinyin, means that both Chinese toon and Hemerocallis are flourishing, which means that both parents are healthy. It's from Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou.

The origin of Idioms

The language comes from Zhuangzi's xiaoyaoyou. "In ancient times, there were big Toons; eight thousand years old was spring; eight thousand years old was autumn." Because of the longevity of Dachun, the ancients used it as a metaphor for father. In the book of songs, Wei Feng, Bo Xi: "how can we get the grass and talk about the back of the tree?". "Yuan" is the same as "Xuan", and "Xuan Cao" is the grass of forgetting worries. The ancients used it as a metaphor for mother.

Idiom usage

It's called the combination of Chun and Xuan. (Cheng Yunsheng's "learning from qionglin: grandparents, grandchildren and sons" in Qing Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : chūn xuān bìng mào