one does not like playing while in his youth(ruò bù hǎo nòng)

one does not like playing while in his youth

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ru ò B ù h à on ò ng, which means not to play when young. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of Duke Fu.

Notes on Idioms

Weak: young; good: like; play: play.

The origin of Idioms

Zuo Qiuming's "Zuozhuan · the ninth year of Duke Fu" in the pre Qin period: "Yiwu is weak and not easy to deal with. It can't fight. It's long and doesn't change. It doesn't know anything else."

Idiom usage

He is young but not fond of playing. Example: Yan Yanzhi's "Tao Zhengshi Lei" in the Southern Dynasty of Song Dynasty: "weak is not easy to make, long solid plain heart." Tang Yang's "great Zhou Mingwei General Liang Gong Shendao stele": only the public is weak and outstanding. Xiao Dongxuan, a record of Hedong, said: "it's only three years old, and it's not easy to be weak; at the age of five or six, though it can't be said, it's elegant."

Chinese PinYin : ruò bù hǎo nòng