大器晚成 (dà qì wǎn chéng): lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot ; fig. a great talent matures slowly; in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state; Rome wasn't built in a day
大器晚成
lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot ; fig. a great talent matures slowly; in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state; Rome wasn't built in a day
The large vessel is the last one finished. Said kindly to someone whose peers arrived first, and Japanese uses the identical four characters for the identical comfort.
The same saying in Japanese: 大器晩成