What does it mean to live up to your time and seize the day?

It means: We should not let down the good times and the good years.

This sentence comes from the 2020 New Year's greetings. On New Year's Eve, the President of the People's Republic of China delivered the 2020 New Year's message through China Central Radio and Television and the Internet. There is a sentence in the congratulatory message: "Let us seize the day and night, live up to our time, and welcome the arrival of 2020 together."

"Seize the day and night" is a quote from a poem written by Chairman Mao: "Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day and night." Chao means morning, and Xi means evening. Day and night, describes the short time, time waits for no one, and there is no need to delay. "Seize the day and night" means racing against time and striving to achieve the goal in the shortest possible time. Living up to the time means: living up to the good times and good years.

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The modern meaning of "seize the day and live up to the time":

"live up to the time", using an extremely romantic writing style , conveying a sense of urgency of seizing the day. In ancient Chinese, the word "Shaohua" is often used to refer to good times. For example, Dai Shulun, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem "Feelings of Late Spring": "After the passing of the Eastern Emperor, the time has come to an end." This is how to describe the scene of the end of prosperity after spring. Later, the meaning of the beautiful years of life was gradually derived from natural time.

The phrase "living up to one's youth" is mostly spoken to young people, but President Xi Jinping sent it to all Chinese people in his New Year's message. Indeed, although the Chinese nation has spanned five thousand years, the Communist Party of China has a history of struggle for nearly a hundred years, and the People's Republic of China has gone through seventy years of glorious history, looking at the land of China today, , there is still youthful vitality everywhere.