alternate between joy and grief(bēi xǐ jiāo jí)

alternate between joy and grief

It is a Chinese idiom with the pronunciation of B ē IX ǐ Ji ā OJ í, which means that sadness and joy are intertwined. It comes from the biography of Wang Xun in the book of Jin.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] the mixture of surprise and joy; the mixture of sadness and joy; and [antonym] indifference, apathy, heart like a dry well

Idiom usage

The father, who was happy and sad, was in an excited mood, hugged his long lost son tightly.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of Jin, biography of Wang Xun: "when the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, you can't observe the grand ceremony outside the Bureau. When you hear about it, you will feel sad and happy."

Idioms and allusions

At the age of 56, master Hongyi had a definite punishment for his own affairs. His disciple Chuanguan had a vivid description: "when I was seriously ill, I once gave a will to Kuan Yun:" before I die, please recite the Buddha's name outside the cloth tent, but I don't have to recite it often. Don't move after you die. Lock the door for eight hours. After eight hours, never wipe your body and wash your face. That is to say, take the clothes you wear with you, wrap them in a broken quilt, roll them up and send them to the col behind the building. If there is tiger food in three days, it will be good. Otherwise, it will be incinerated in three days. Inform him after incineration, never early. Before and after Yu's death, everything is very simple and must be done in accordance with the law, otherwise it will be against the son. " On October 10, 1942 (the first day of September in the year of Renwu in the old calendar), three days before returning to the west, master Hongyi wrote "the intersection of sadness and happiness" in calligraphy and presented it to the waiter Miaolin, which was his last stroke. These four words fully express his state of mind before he told others: sad that there are many people in the world who are suffering, but still have seven emotions and six desires; happy that his soul is about to say goodbye to the world of SAHA (the "great world" where people live in Buddhism) and go to the Western Pure Land. In his posthumous letters to Xia Mianzun, Liu Zhiping and master Xing Yuan, he added two verses: "friendship between a gentleman is as light as water.". Holding on to the image and seeking it, it's a thousand miles away. When I asked Yu He Shi, he forgot to speak. the spring is full of branches and the moon is full in the heart of heaven. The first one is to warn them not to be obsessed with the appearance of life, so it is no different to want to obtain the right consciousness; the second one is to be very happy about their soul's beautiful return. The great wise man's farewell ceremony is indeed different. Master Hongyi's compassionate hospice care (in turn, the dead care for the living) has left us deeply moved.

Chinese PinYin : bēi xǐ jiāo jí