the country is defeated and the home lost(guó pò jiā wáng)

the country is defeated and the home lost

The Chinese idiom, Gu ó P ò Ji ā w á ng, refers to the collapse of a country and the destruction of a family. It comes from the book of answering Lu Chen written by Liu Kun of Jin Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Kun's answer to Lu Chen in Jin Dynasty: "the country is broken and the family is destroyed, and the relatives and friends are disabled."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] mountains and rivers broken [antonym] the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the country is rich and the people are strong, and the world is peaceful

Idiom usage

In the legend Cui Wei written by Pei Chuan of the Tang Dynasty, "my wife said," a certain country is broken, and was captured by the king of Yue Song Wen Tianxiang's "Ji Mao's October 1 to Yan Yue's five days of death" is the second part: "the country is broken and the family is ruined, the tears are dark, the world is desolate and the earth is old, the whole body is light." Yuan Haowen's poem "to send Zhong Xi and Jian Dafang" says: "when the country is broken, I will stay in Liaocheng for another autumn." Zhao Bi's biography of Wen Wenshan, the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty: when the world is desolate and the earth is old, the hero dies, the country is broken and the family is ruined, and the cause is broken. Zhang Huangyan's farewell to hometown in August of Jiachen in Ming Dynasty: what do you want when your country is broken? There is my teacher at the head of Xizi lake. The sun and the moon hang in the family's tomb, and the temple of the Yue family is on the half wall of heaven and earth.

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