lower one's aspirations and denigrate oneself(jiàng zhì rǔ shēn)

lower one's aspirations and denigrate oneself

Surrender to ambition and disgrace oneself is a Chinese word, pronounced Ji à ngzh à R à sh à n, which means to lower one's will and humiliate one's identity. It refers to people's complicity with the secular world. It comes from the Analects of Confucius.

explain

Lower one's will and humiliate one's identity. It means to go with the world.

allusion

[source]: The Analects of Confucius · Weizi: "Liu Xiahui, Shaolian, surrender your ambition and disgrace your body." [example]: no wonder when I asked him what he had done, he refused to say it for fear of insulting his master. I don't know if you are willing to do such things. It's just what people can't do! The 24th chapter of the history of pain by Wu Jianren in Qing Dynasty

Discrimination of words

[synonym]: endure humiliation and bear heavy burden [antonym]: rehabilitate Zhaoxue

usage

Grammar: combined; used as predicate and object; refers to the common customs.

Chinese PinYin : jiàng zhì rǔ shēn