don 't take it too seriously(wàng yán wàng tīng)

don 't take it too seriously

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à ngy á NW à NGT à ng, which means that people who speak casually and people who listen casually don't take it seriously. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu's Qi Wu Lun: "Yu Chang is a woman (you) who talks in vain, and she (you) who listens in vain."

Idiom usage

I don't take both sides seriously

Examples

To keep it in mind is not to feel it. (Lu Xun's a brief history of Chinese Novels: the fictions of Jin and Tang Dynasties in the Qing Dynasty and their tributaries)

Chinese PinYin : wàng yán wàng tīng