to keep at a distance; remote and alienated; (literary variant) to become estranged or drift apart

General of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (266-321), famous for his dedication and the idiom [[闻鸡起舞|聞雞起舞|wen2 ji1 qi3 wu3]], meaning to wake up at the first crow of the rooster to practice swordplay.

to strive for achievement or take the lead based on the story of a Jin Dynasty general who rose early to practice swordplay at the cock's crow