Insects, sand, ape and crane(chóng shā yuán hè)

Insects, sand, ape and crane

The Chinese idiom ch ó ngsh ā Yu á NH è is used to refer to soldiers who died in war. Also refers to people who died in war. It comes from baopuzi cited in volume 916 of Taiping Yulan.

The origin of Idioms

Baopuzi is quoted in volume 916 of Taiping Yulan: "King Mu of Zhou went to the south, and his army was exhausted. A gentleman was an ape, a crane, and a small follower was a worm and a sand."

Idiom usage

The soldiers who died on the battlefield are like flying when muxinan's army did not return. Han Yu's poems of returning to Hongnan in Tang Dynasty and collection of Arts and culture cited Jin Gehong's baopuzi: "King Mu of Zhou Dynasty marched to the south, the army was exhausted, the gentleman was the ape, the crane, the villain was the insect and the sand." Later, because of the "insects, sand, apes and cranes", he was called the general who died in the war.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym ape, crane and worm

Chinese PinYin : chóng shā yuán hè