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What is the meaning of "Passing on the Fire"?

The meaning of "Passing on the Fire" is: in ancient times, it was a metaphor for the spirit of a person who is not extinguished even though his physical remains are exhausted; in later times, it was used as a metaphor to describe the passing on of knowledge and skills from one generation to the next.

Source: Zhuangzi (庄子), "养生主" (养生主). The Lord of Nourishing Life": "The finger is poor in being a salary, and the fire passes on, not knowing that it is exhausted."

The burning of the candle is limited, while the fire is passed on without end

Example Let's calm down and feel the cultural treasures and spiritual wealth left to us by our ancestors, and let's do our best to pass on the Chinese culture.

Near synonyms salary and fire, inheritance, inheritance, succession, a lineage, a lineage.

Antonyms no one to follow, no one in the blue

Expanded Information

1, salary and fire near synonyms

a lineage

Explained from the same lineage, faction passed down from one generation to the next. To criticize that there is a relationship of inheritance between certain ideas, behaviors, or doctrines.

Origin Wen Yiduo, "The Four Masters": "If we know that they were as good as Ru Zhiqian's "Rituals to Yang Yingchuan Wen" says, we will be able to understand more clearly the reason why Wang and Yang are in the same lineage as Shen and Song."

Example of the fine style of hard work, and the Chinese people have always been industrious and courageous is a lineage.

2, the payroll antonyms

green and yellow

Explanation green: field time seedlings; yellow: mature grain. The old grain has been eaten up, and the new grain has not yet been picked up. It is also a metaphor for not being able to catch up with one another in terms of talent or material resources.

Originally from Yuan Dianzhang - Household Department - Warehouse: "Today is the time when the green and yellow are not enough, and the material dendrobiums are surging expensively everywhere."

In recent times, the old grains have been eaten up and the new grains have not yet caught up, so the price of food is getting higher and higher everywhere.

Example of the old society farmers to the period of green and yellow, is the most difficult to endure.