feel quite helpless(chǔ qiú xiāng duì)

feel quite helpless

Chu Gong Xiang, a Chinese idiom, is ch ǔ Qi ú Xi ā ngdu ì in pinyin. It originally refers to the relative grief of Zhong Yi and his companions who were captured to Jin State in the spring and Autumn period. Later, it is used to describe people's suffering from national calamity or other changes. It comes from the new words of the world.

Analysis of Idioms

Chu prisoners cry to each other

The origin of Idioms

In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu, Yu Yu said, "when people cross the Yangtze River, they often invite each other to new pavilions and drink with flowers. The Marquis of the Zhou Dynasty (Zhou Yi) sat down and sighed: "the scenery is not different. There are different mountains and rivers." They all look at each other and weep. Only Wang's prime minister (Wang Dao) suddenly changed his color and said, "when we work together to restore the royal family, how can we be a prisoner of Chu?"

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as object and attribute; refers to inextricable; with derogatory meaning. Example Chen Kangqi's Lang Qian Ji Wen in Qing Dynasty: "today's trip is more glorious than immortality. How can you be a prisoner of Chu and cry to each other?" Zhang Jiayu's reading history in the Ming Dynasty: "all of you shed tears in Xinting, so that you can know Fan Yang from the Central Plains!" Tang Dugu and his poem "guimao went to the southern half of the road when he heard that the capital was lost and sent to Shiyao Youshen" said: "don't cry in the new pavilion, but make foreigners laugh." song Lu You's poem "chasing the past" No.5: "I don't want Yiwu on the left side of the river, and there is no one crying in the new pavilion." Song Du Fu's poem "sprinkling the moon on the river · stone city" said: "where is China when the sun is burning? I want to shed tears. " the king of the Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem named "the autumn bosom of piling": "the rivers and mountains are endless, the new pavilion is full of tears, the heaven and the earth are long, and the county is full of ink." According to Da Ai Fu written by Wanchun in Ming and Xia dynasties, "Chu prisoners have no tears in a new pavilion, but Yue Jue is not the sound of a stone chamber." Liu Yazi's poem "the night of March 26th gathers Shuangqing Pavilion" reads: "the new pavilion is crying at the famous people, quietly happy, and the young face is dizzy." When people across the river come to America and Japan, they often invite each other to new pavilions and drink with flowers. Marquis Zhou sat down and sighed, "the scenery is not different. It's different from the mountains and rivers." They all look at each other and weep. Only the king's prime minister changed his color and said, "when we work together to restore the royal family, how can we be a prisoner of Chu?" Xu fuzuo's "red pear memory friend" in Ming Dynasty: "husband and wife are opposite, blood and tears are full of imagination."

Idioms and allusions

Allusion 1

In 316 ad, Liu Yao led the army to destroy the Western Jin Dynasty. Under the support of Wang Dao, Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang. When some nobles and ministers went to the new pavilion outside Jiankang city to drink wine on a sunny day, Zhou Kaifa, Marquis of Wucheng City, lamented that everyone started to cry. The Prime Minister Wang Dao said that in order to recover China, we should not cry like Chu prisoners.

Allusion 2

People who cross the river have to go out to a new pavilion to have a banquet every summer. Zhou Yizhong sat down and sighed, "the scenery is not the same, and there are different rivers when you look up.". They all look at each other and cry. However, daoran changed his color and said, "when we work together with the royal family to restore China, how can we be a prisoner of Chu! "The crowd received their tears and gave thanks. Russia paid homage to the right general, the governor of Yangzhou, and the Jiangnan military. It moved to the general of Hushi, and added the cavalry, the governor of the Chinese and foreign armies, the commander of the central library, the recorder of books, and the fake Festival. Guide to dun unified six states, fixed word Chinese and foreign governors. Sitting back is not a good thing. All the people who cross the Yangtze River invite each other to gather in Xinting, where they enjoy the beautiful flowers while drinking. Zhou Hou sits in the middle and sighs: "the scenery is the same as before, but the rivers and mountains have changed their masters." Only the prime minister, angry and heroic, said, "we should work together to serve the imperial court and finally recover the motherland. How can we cry like a slave to the country?"

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