the decline(jiāng hé rì xià)

the decline

The river is declining day by day. As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Ji à NGH é R à Xi à, which means that the water of the river flows down day by day. Now it means that the situation is getting worse day by day. It comes from Luancheng Ji, Yingzhao jince, Junshu CE, the fifth way.

Analysis of Idioms

It's going from bad to worse and from bad to better

The origin of Idioms

Song Su Zhe's "luanchengji · Yingzhao jince · Junshu CE fifth way" says: "it looks like the Yangtze River, muddy day and night, tends to go down and can't stop."

usage

It refers to the decline of career energy. Examples: Pu Songling's preface and postscript of Liaozhai Zhiyi Fu Ben (Gao Xu) in Qing Dynasty: "and the river is declining; people and ghosts are quite the same; not in the netherworld; on the contrary, it's the Taoist School of sages and sages; day by day, Tang and Yu dynasties; is it reasonable?" Wu Jingzi of the Qing Dynasty's the 26th chapter of scholars' Unofficial History "to Bao Tingxi, a weeping friend of Shenggong, who lost his father and got married": today's people are on the decline. When these scholars and scholars talked to him about preaching the poor scriptures, he said it was circuitous and inappropriate. When you talk to him about all things, he says that it's miscellaneous but not refined. Chapter 29 of Li Baojia's Officialdom: to tell you the truth, the current situation is declining! In Chapter 8 of Lao Can's travels, Chapter 2: "if we want to make the criminal law heavier, we can't bear it, but the people's heart is declining."

Chinese PinYin : jiāng hé rì xià