one's nobility lasts forever(shān gāo shuǐ cháng)

one's nobility lasts forever

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ā ng ā Oshu ǐ ch á ng, which is as high as a mountain and as long as water. The original metaphor means that a person's style or reputation will always exist like a mountain. After the metaphor of deep virtue. From Wang Fu.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yuxi's Wang Fu in Tang Dynasty: the dragon's gate is missing, the clouds are grey, the trees are not clear, the mountains are high and the waters are long.

Idiom usage

It's a combination; it's predicate and object; it's commendatory. Towering like a mountain, flowing like water. The original metaphor means that a person's style or reputation will always exist like a mountain. After the metaphor of deep virtue. Tang Libai's post on the balcony: mountains are high and rivers are long, objects are tens of thousands, there is no old pen, but it is clear and strong. 18, shangyangtai book, Taibai. Fan Zhongyan, Song Dynasty, records of Mr. Yan's ancestral hall: the cloud mountain is vast and the river is vast. Mr. wind, high mountains and long rivers. Li Dongyang of Ming Dynasty wrote in the tomb of Shi Ying, the governor of Qian Dynasty: "the appearance of public virtue is beautiful, and the appearance of public virtue is beautiful; the appearance of public virtue is at home, and the mountains are high and the waters are long." "Qun Yin Lei Xuan. Guan Qiang Lei. Vol. 11. Shuang Zhong Ji. Zhang Xun's farewell to his mother": don't worry about relatives, poor families, high mountains and long rivers.

Analysis of Idioms

The mountain is long and the land is far away. [antonym] has a long history

Chinese PinYin : shān gāo shuǐ cháng