暮鼓晨钟
Traditional form:
暮鼓晨鐘
Pinyin (reading):
mùgǔchénzhōng
Definitions:
- lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice
- the passage of time in a disciplined existence
Characters:
- 暮 - dusk, evening, sunset; ending
- 鼓 - drum; to beat, to strike; to rouse
- 晨 - dawn, early morning
- 钟 - clock; bell
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