{"id":4600,"date":"2019-11-20T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:17:42","slug":"an-expression-in-chinese-an-yu-xian-zhuang-defines-an-attitude-towards-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/an-expression-in-chinese-an-yu-xian-zhuang-defines-an-attitude-towards-life\/","title":{"rendered":"An expression in Chinese \u5b89\u4e8e\u73b0\u72b6 defines an attitude towards life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Overall, Chinese culture promotes the spirit of challenge from self development perspective. It&rsquo;s almost every Chinese parent&rsquo;s motto to teach their child to keep seeking challenge instead of sitting on what has been granted. That being said, accepting what was granted and be happily satisfied might not be a bad choice either. Many Chinese would agree with that too.<\/p>\n<p>  Therefore, this ex<em><\/em>pression in Chinese \u5b89\u4e8e\u73b0\u72b6 (\u0101n y&uacute; xi&agrave;n zhu&agrave;ng) can be used both in a positive way or a negative way. All depends on the co<em><\/em>ntext you&rsquo;ll put it into. Literally this Chinese idiom can be translated as &ldquo;to be happy with the status quo&rdquo;. It is mostly used to describe an attitude towards life.<\/p>\n<p>  Let&rsquo;s have a look at it&rsquo;s usage in a positive way:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; w\u01d2 sh&igrave; g&egrave; \u0101ny&uacute;xi&agrave;nzhu&agrave;ng de r&eacute;n, w\u01d2 du&igrave; zhu\u012bqi&uacute; m&iacute;ngl&igrave; m&eacute;iy\u01d2u du\u014dshao x&igrave;ngq&ugrave;.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u662f\u4e2a\u5b89\u4e8e\u73b0\u72b6\u7684\u4eba,\u6211\u5bf9\u8ffd\u6c42\u540d\u5229\u6ca1\u6709\u591a\u5c11\u5174\u8da3.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&rsquo;m peaceful with what I&rsquo;ve got so far, I don&rsquo;t want to fight my way up in this area.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. an-yu-xian-zhuang-e1 <\/p>\n<p>  Or in a negative way:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; t\u0101 de t&agrave;itai z\u01d2ngsh&igrave; m&aacute;nyu&agrave;n t\u0101 t&agrave;i \u0101ny&uacute;xi&agrave;nzhu&agrave;ng, b&ugrave; qi&uacute; j&igrave;nq\u01d4.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ed6\u7684\u592a\u592a\u603b\u662f\u57cb\u6028\u4ed6\u592a\u5b89\u4e8e\u73b0\u72b6, \u4e0d\u6c42\u8fdb\u53d6.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He&rsquo;s always so peaceful with what he guf? He definitely needs some motive to be more active.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. an-yu-xian-zhuang-e2 <\/p>\n<p>  What kind of person you are? Are you a \u5b89\u4e8e\u73b0\u72b6\u7684 person? Or the opposite?<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2159899691\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, Chinese culture promotes the spirit of challenge from self development perspective. It&rsquo;s almost every Chinese parent&rsquo;s motto to teach<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,54,118,1157],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-culture","tag-chinese-idiom","tag-culture","tag-to-teach"],"views":180,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}