nostalgic(hú sǐ shǒu qiū)

nostalgic

The fox died at the head of the hill, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin h ú s ǐ sh ǒ uqi ū, which means the ancient legend that if the fox died outside, it must face its head to its cave. It means not forgetting one's roots or remembering one's hometown. It also means missing one's country and hometown. From notes to the book of rites.

The origin of Idioms

From the sixth volume of the book of rites, tangongshang, to the seventh, Dagong was granted to Yingqiu and was buried in the Zhou Dynasty. The gentleman said, "when you are happy, you will never forget your origin. Ancient people have said: Fox death is the first hill. "Benevolence." The fourth volume of supplementary notes to the songs of Chu, nine chapters of mourning Ying, says in disorder from 36 to 36: Man Yu Mu looks at the flow, and when does he hope for the opposite? Birds fly back home, foxes die. I believe that it is not my sin to abandon it. How can I forget it?

Idioms and allusions

During the Warring States period, Qu Yuan was envied and framed by others, and could not get the trust of the king of Chu. He was exiled to other places. In his exiled life, he wrote many poems reflecting the contradiction between the people's wishes and reality. His poem "mourning Ying" said: "birds fly back to their hometown, foxes die in the first hill." It is said in ancient times that if a fox died outside, he would face his head to his cave. "Fox died head mound" metaphor does not forget the origin or miss hometown, also metaphor to the homeland, hometown missing. It is also called "Fox head".

Idiom usage

It is a metaphor for not forgetting one's origin or missing one's hometown. Example Huainanzi shuolinxun "birds fly to the countryside, rabbits go back to the cave, foxes die, cold generals soar in the water, and each mourns his birth." In Liu Xiang's biography of women in the Han Dynasty, Jin Huai Ying said: "I went to my country for several years, but my son and father forgot, and my friends in the Qin and Jin Dynasties didn't add relatives. The husband and the bird fly back to their hometown, the fox dies in the head, and I die in the first Jin Dynasty. Is Ziqi OK with me? " In the book of Jin, biography of Zhang daozhuan: "when a fox dies, his heart will never forget his origin; Zhong Yi is in Jin, and Chu Bian Nanyin." "But when I heard that the birds were living in the south, the fox died in the head hill, and the tombs of thousands of Li's relatives were all in the Southern Dynasty, I couldn't bear to eat when I thought early or late." The first act of "Cai Wenji" by Guo Moruo: "I told you the story of" the fox died at the head of the hill ". A person will miss his hometown until he dies." The first volume of "Yunxi Youyi" written by Fan Yu of Tang Dynasty: "only when Tao (Yongtao) has the book palpitating, can he have the thought of fox head."

Chinese PinYin : hú sǐ shǒu qiū