strike the head on the ground and call on heaven(qiāng dì hū tiān)
strike the head on the ground and call on heaven
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ā NGD ì h ū Ti ā n, which means to shout for heaven and hit the ground with your head; it describes extreme sadness. It's from officialdom.
Notes on Idioms
Grab the ground: touch the ground.
The origin of Idioms
Tang Bin's "Tang Zi's posthumous note" 2 of the Qing Dynasty: "I was surprised to hear that Xie Ren was always rushing to the ground, and I was crying to strike the market."
Idiom usage
I'm very sad. I'm very sad. The fourteenth chapter of Li Baojia's Officialdom: the boss and grandmother can't cry when they see that their daughter-in-law is dead
Chinese PinYin : qiāng dì hū tiān
strike the head on the ground and call on heaven
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