Difficult to advance but easy to retreat(nan jin yi tui)

Difficult to advance but easy to retreat

It's hard to advance and easy to retreat. Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n á NJ ì NY ì Tu ì, which means to think twice before you become an official, for fear of being slow when you leave. It comes from the book of rites · Confucianism by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

[name] difficult to advance and easy to retreat [Pinyin] n á NJ ì NY ì Tu ì [explanation] means to think twice before you become an official, for fear of being slow when you leave.

The origin of Idioms

[source] Dai Sheng's book of rites · Confucianism in the Western Han Dynasty: "if it is difficult, it is easy to retreat; if it is not able, it is also difficult." Chen Jiru of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the records of Yuan Gong's temple on Da Sima Jie Huan: "Xi temple can't stay (yuan Keli), Wei party can't seize it. The high wind of being difficult to advance and easy to retreat for a while can really wash away the foul spirit of praising merits and virtues in the dynasty."

Examples of Idioms

[example] on the day when one's parents like less and fear more, one's son is the real man. Yuan Mei's Qi Bing Qi of Shangyin Zhifu in Qing Dynasty

Idiom usage

[usage] as an object or attribute; used to admonish

Chinese PinYin : nan jin yi tui