天下之忧 (天下之憂) tiānxià zhī yōu
tiānxià zhī yōu
phrase
the concerns of the world
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 16 符瑞 Auspicious and Ominous Signs in Scroll 6 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 179)
Contained in
- 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐(先天下之憂而憂，後天下之樂而樂) The first concern is affairs of state, enjoying the pleasure comes later.
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷五十四 Scroll 54 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷三十下 郎顗襄楷列傳 Volume 30b: Biographies of Lang Yi; Xiang Kai Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷十九 脩務訓 Chapter 19: Cultivation of Effort Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 1
- 卷六 服制像第十四 二端第十五 符瑞第十六 俞序第十七 離合根第十八 立元神第十九 保位權第二十 Scroll 6 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 1
- 卷一百七十八 列傳第一百二十八: 趙隱 張裼 李蔚 崔彥昭 鄭畋 盧攜 王徽 Volume 178 Biographies 128: Zhao Yin, Zhang Ti, Li Yu, Cui Yanzhao, Zheng Tian, Lu Xie, Wang Hui Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1