Life is thin but fortune is short(mìng báo yuán qiān)

Life is thin but fortune is short

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is m ì NGB ó Yu á nqi ā n, which means bad fate and shallow fate. It's from farewell to incense.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Yufeng's farewell to burning incense in Ming Dynasty: "there is no need to cry out and sigh too much. It's a dilemma to hate one's fate and love one's fame."

Idiom usage

It's a bad fate. Wei Ming also said with a smile: "how can you be a miser." The fifth chapter of Tian Yu Hua: Ming Dynasty, Xu Zhonglin and the romance of Fengshen (the fifth chapter, Yunzi goes into the sword to eliminate the demons): "if you want to be a cheap concubine, you can't serve your majesty for a long time. You can always enjoy flying!"

Chinese PinYin : mìng báo yuán qiān