Custom Train An Army For 1000 Days Use It For One Hour Chinese Calligraphy Wall Scroll

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Maintain An Army For 1000 Days,Use It For An Hour

Discipline / Training / Tempering Character

Maintain An Army For 1000 Days,
Use It For An Hour

yǎng bīng qiān rì, yàng bīng yì shí
양병천일용병일시

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Nothing could be more true. When I was in the Marine Corps, we trained for years for combat that often lasts only hours.

This phrase also reminds me of a common phrase used in the military to describe combat: "Weeks of total boredom, punctuated with five minutes of shear terror".

This may have some roots in Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Though I can not find this passage in his writings.

On the subject of the Art of War, if you have a favorite passage, we can create a custom calligraphy scroll with that phrase.

The More We Sweat in Training,
The Less We Bleed in Battle

píng shí duō liú hàn zhàn shí shǎo liú xuè

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There is more than one way to translate this ancient Chinese military proverb. Here are a few interpretations:

A drop of sweat spent in a drill is a drop of blood saved in war.

More practice will give one a better chance of success in real situation.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

I heard this many times when I was a U.S. Marine, but I had no idea at the time that it was actually an old Chinese proverb.

Discipline / Training / Tempering Character

mó liàn

This is a form of discipline which suggests training of the mind and character, aimed at producing self-control, obedience, etc.

One of my Chinese-English dictionaries even translates this as "tempering oneself" or turning yourself into hardened steel.

In old Korean Hanja, they use these characters in reverse order, but with the same meaning. If you want the Korean version, please click this link instead of the button above: Korean version.

Training / Drill

xùn liàn
kunren
훈련

If training or drill is important to you (especially for military drill and training), this might be just the thing for a drill master to hang behind his/her desk.

This term is universal in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja. It can also mean practice or exercise, depending on context.

The More We Sweat in Training,The Less We Bleed in Battle

Training / Drill

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The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese

If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
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If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich.

Title	Characters Simplified Traditional	Japanese Romaji (Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Maintain An Army For 1000 Days, Use It For An Hour	养兵千日用兵一时養兵千日用兵一時	n/a	yǎng bīng qiān rì, yàng bīng yì shí yang bing qian ri yang bing yi shi yang ping ch`ien jih yang ping i shih	yang3 bing1 qian1 ri4 yang4 bing1 yi4 shi2 yang ping chien jih yang ping i shih
The More We Sweat in Training, The Less We Bleed in Battle	平时多流汗战时少流血平時多流汗戰時少流血	n/a	píng shí duō liú hàn zhàn shí shǎo liú xuè ping shi duo liu han zhan shi shao liu xue p`ing shih to liu shih shao liu hsüeh	ping2 shi2 duo1 liu2 han4 zhan4 shi2 shao3 liu2 xue4 ping shih to liu shih shao liu hsüeh
Discipline / Training / Tempering Character	磨练磨練 / 磨鍊 / 磨鍊	n/a	mó liàn mo lian mo lien	mo2 lian4 molian
Training / Drill	训练訓練	kunren	xùn liàn xun lian hsün lien	xun4 lian4 xunlian