Time never comes(nián gǔ bù dēng)

Time never comes

Niangubudeng is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni á ng ǔ B ù D ē ng, which means that the grain harvested in a year is immature. From the book of rites, qulixia.

Interpretation of Idioms

Niangu: grain harvested in a year; Deng: mature, complete. A bad year is a bad year.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, qulixia, written by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that "the year is fierce, and the year is not prosperous."

Examples of usage

Zhao Ye of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in the spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, the legend of Gou Jian's Conspiracy: "the flood and drought are not adjusted, the time is not ripe, the people are hungry, and Daojian is hungry." Biography of Jia Chong in the book of Jin: it's not the right time for the world to be troubled by labor and not to be prosperous in time. In Chapter 81 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty written by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty, "Wen Zhong pays homage again and says:" Yue State is in decline, the flood and drought are not in tune, the year and the valley are not prosperous, and the people are hungry. "

Chinese PinYin : nián gǔ bù dēng