Chinese · Idiom Attested

慎终追远

shèn zhōng zhuī yuǎn

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Traditional: 慎終追遠

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

To carry out one's parents' funeral rites with care and keep honouring distant ancestors. Names the Confucian duty of remembering the dead, especially around tomb-sweeping festivals.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Cẩn trọng lo việc tang lễ của cha mẹ và thành kính tưởng nhớ tổ tiên xa đời. Chỉ nếp hiếu kính với người đã khuất theo đạo Nho, hay được nhắc vào dịp tảo mộ.

Literally: take care over the end, recall the distant

Examples

清明节扫墓是慎终追远的传统。Qīngmíngjié sǎomù shì shèn zhōng zhuī yuǎn de chuántǒng.Sweeping the graves at the Qingming Festival is a tradition of honouring one's ancestors.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thận chung truy viễn” (than-chung-truy-vien). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Hán-Việt cognate thận chung truy viễn Careful at the ending, mindful of the distant — devotion that survives the parents it honors. Tiếng Việt

Common questions

What does “慎终追远” mean?

To carry out one's parents' funeral rites with care and keep honouring distant ancestors. Names the Confucian duty of remembering the dead, especially around tomb-sweeping festivals. Literally: take care over the end, recall the distant

Is “慎终追远” formal or informal?

慎终追远 is generally formal.

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