strike the head on the ground and call on heaven
It is a Chinese idiom, which means to cry for heaven with sorrow. Describes a look of extreme grief and despair. It's from xingshihengyan.
explain
Pathetique: sad, sad. Cry out in sorrow. Describes a look of extreme grief and despair.
Source of allusion
Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty, Volume 10 of Xingshi Hengyan: "another two days later, husband and wife died one after another, and their two sons cried bitterly."
Discrimination of words
Synonym: cry for heaven and earth commonly used degree: commonly used emotional color: commendatory words; grammatical usage: as predicate and adverbial; to describe the extreme of grief; idiom structure: combined type; generation time: ancient times
Chinese PinYin : chuàng dì hū tiān
strike the head on the ground and call on heaven
crane one 's neck and stand on tiptoe. yán jǐng qǐ zhǒng
The fog is dark and the clouds are deep. wù àn yún shēn
time slips away fast and the year is approaching its end. jí yǐng diāo nián
can compose and perform military exercises. shàn wén néng wǔ
a person who returns to a place he once abandoned. qián dù liú láng