厚死薄生

Traditional form:

厚死薄生

Pinyin (reading):

hòusǐbóshēng

Definitions:

• lit. to praise the dead and revile the living
• fig. to live in the past (idiom)

Characters:

• 厚 - generous; substantial; deep (as a friendship)
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth

Traditional characters:

• 厚 - generous; substantial; deep (as a friendship)
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth