Chinese idioms that describe "there is tension, there is relaxation" include: combining work and leisure, tension and relaxation, a relaxation, labor and leisure, waiting for labor with leisure.
Related Idioms
1. [ láo yì jié hé ]?
Yi: comfort, rest. Combination of work and rest. It is to rationalize the effective life according to the time relationship.
2. 张弛有度 [zhāng chí yǒu dù]
It means to be loose and tight, to be free to put in and out. To have a degree suggests the ability to be restrained.
3. one sheet, one flaccid? [ yī zhāng yī chí ]?
It means a combination of strictness and leniency, which was the way King Wen and King Wu ruled the country. Now it is used as a metaphor to describe the rational arrangement of life's relaxation and work's labor and leisure.
Originally, "The Book of Rites - Miscellaneous Records": "If one does not relax, then the civil and military forces will not be able to do so. The way of literature and martial arts is also not able to do. A relaxation; Wenwu way also."
4. 有劳有逸 [yǒu láo yǒu yì]
Work and rest are arranged in a suitable and appropriate manner, and labor is evenly distributed.
Source: Tang Ouyang Zhan's "Preface to the Banquet for Officials of the Order of Lushan Li": "Songs are sung to bring out their own harmony, dances are danced to bring out their own joy, and the eight wastes are exhausted, thousands of bells are exhausted, and the strong hair is raised, and the silk and bamboo are taught, so there is both work and rest, and is it not the first of all to have a joyful and happy time?"
5. To wait for one's labor with ease. [ yǐ yì dài láo ]?
Yi yì dài láo (逸逸) means leisure; lao lao (劳) means fatigue. It means to be well-prepared in a war, and to store up strength and vigor, so as to give a head-on blow to a tired enemy when he comes to attack.
Origin; Hou Han Shu - Feng Yi Biography: "The attacker is insufficient; the defender has more than enough; this is the first according to the city; in order to wait for labor; not so to fight."