What was Confucius lamenting when he said, "On the river, the deceased is like a husband, staying up all night"? Mencius said, "Name belongs to water, who can resist it?"
"The deceased is like a husband, staying up all night" is a famous saying of Confucius. Describing time goes by like running water, which is gone forever. I feel that things in my life are changing rapidly, and I also feel that I cherish time. From Zi Han's The Analects.
Mencius said that "when people return to water, no one can resist it", which means that people's hearts are like running water, and no one can resist it.