be emaciated with grief(chái huǐ gǔ lì)

be emaciated with grief

The Chinese idiom ch á Ihu ǐ g ǔ L ì in pinyin means the appearance of being emaciated and emaciated due to the grief of the bereaved parents. From the biography of Chen Xiaoyi in northern history.

explain

Chai: like firewood; Rui: sad; Guli: thin as if only skeleton. It describes the appearance of being emaciated and haggard due to the excessive grief of parents.

source

In the county food zhaiju, day and night mourning, every voice, never fail, firewood destroyed bone standing, see the sorrow. In the Sui Dynasty, Chen Xiaoyi, assistant to the judicial officer of Lu County, was fair and honest, and had a high reputation in the county. He was a rare dutiful son. When his father died, he left his job and kept his filial piety at home. At the end of the period, he was granted the title of county magistrate of Yanmen by the imperial court. He still insisted on being a vegetarian all day, and often missed his dead father, which made people devastated. Examples of idioms: when one's parents are dead, one's home worries and tears blood, one's wood is destroyed and one's bones stand upright, one bows and builds one's own grave. Wu Mingshi's inscription on filial piety of Zhang Changji in Wu County of Tang Dynasty

Discrimination of words

[structure] constrictive style [time] ancient times [synonyms] mourning and standing on one's bones, being as thin as a wood [Tongyun CI] dead voice wailing, calling the sky and patting the earth, not easy to live, laughing, swallowing, intentional, financial friendship, covering the sky and the earth, right-hand, sneaking away

usage

To be thin is to be thin.

Chinese PinYin : chái huǐ gǔ lì