生生不息

shēng shēng bù xī

to live on and on, renewing itself generation after generation

Character by character

生shēng
life

不bù
not

息xī
cease

黄河边的人们一代又一代在这里耕种、生活，生生不息。

Generation after generation, people by the Yellow River have farmed and lived here, their line never broken.

Tone: positive (praise).

For life, a people, a culture or a tradition, often beside 延续 or 薪火相传. It echoes the 《周易》 line 生生之谓易, “endless begetting is what change means”.

Learn this in Lesson 157 · HSK 7–9: 器官捐献 (Organ donation)

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