The past and the present
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j í g ǔ Qi ó NGJ ī n, which means to exhaust the past and the present. It comes from Song Ye Shi's offering to Xue Zi Shu Wen.
The origin of Idioms
"Zhu Zi Yu Lei" volume 95: "the temperament of Bing, although there are good and evil differences, but the extreme ancient poor today theory, then the nature is not bad."
Idiom usage
Used as an attributive or adverbial; used in writing.
Examples
It's a long way to go. Song · Ye Shi's "memorial to Xue Zi Shu Wen"
Chinese PinYin : jí gǔ qióng jīn
The past and the present
The Dragon roars and the lion roars. lóng míng shī hǒu
bowelless gentleman -- nickname of the crab. wú cháng gōng zǐ
hold in one 's horse near a precipice. lín yá lè mǎ