pitiful parents(āi āi fù mǔ)

pitiful parents

Mourning for my parents, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "I" if "m", which means to be mournful, my parents! It used to mean that people under tyranny in ancient times worked outside all the year round, and they were sad that they could not take care of their parents' illness and death. From the book of songs · Xiaoya · Liao E.

The origin of Idioms

"The book of songs · Xiaoya · Polygonum zedoary": "Polygonum zedoary, bandit e Yi Hao, mourn for parents, give birth to my labor."

Idiom usage

Poor parents, poor parents, poor parents. Let's not be filial until we have children. Why don't we ask our parents for their feelings! The first part of Yuan Dynasty's Wu Ming Shi's Xiao Zhang Tu! Lin Mengchu, Ming Dynasty, the 13th volume of his book "the first time to make a case is amazing": "the poem says:" I mourn my parents, but I am tired. If you want to repay your virtue, you will lose your virtue. " The first part of Yuan Dynasty's Wu Ming Shi's Xiao Zhang Tu: "if we have a son, we know that we are unfilial to our mother. Why don't we ask our parents for their feelings?"

Chinese PinYin : āi āi fù mǔ