suffer from one ailment after another(sān zāi bā nàn)

suffer from one ailment after another

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ā NZ ā IB ā n à n, which means that children are born with many diseases and often encounter misfortunes. From xiaozhangtu.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's xiaozhangtu, the third fold: "but there are eight difficulties and three disasters, one heart fast."

Idiom usage

It's a disaster. What's more, he's in a lot of trouble. He's not afraid of giving him a birthday party and wrapping it up. The thirty second chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty

Idiom story

"Three calamities" and "eight calamities" have definite contents in Buddhist scriptures, which are different from the general usage of the common saying. Buddhism believes that the world is a disaster from its formation to destruction, which goes through four stages of "becoming, living, being bad and being empty". In the later period of "living and robbing", people's behavior was eccentric and their life expectancy was reduced, and then famine, disease, swordsmen and other disasters occurred one after another, which were called "small three disasters". At the end of the "bad disaster", there will be more terrible fires, floods and wind disasters, which are called "three major disasters". Finally, the wind disaster blew the world out of existence, thus entering the "empty robbery". It is recorded in Volume 2 of Guo Ruoxu's "records of seeing and hearing pictures" in Song Dynasty that Zhiyun, a monk in the late Tang Dynasty, once painted "three disasters in disguise" in Fuxian temple in Luoyang. "Eight difficulties" refers to the eight situations in which it is difficult to see Buddha, hear Dharma and practice Taoism: "one is hell, two are beasts, three are hungry ghosts, four are blind, deaf and dumb, five generations are intelligent, six Buddhas are before and after Buddha, seven are depressed, one is in Yue State, and eight live in heaven." (Volume 8 of Mahayana chapter by Huiyuan of Sui Dynasty) the first three difficulties are "three evil ways", and the "blind, deaf and dumb" are called "bitter obstacles". "Yu Dan Yue State" is beizhou of the four continents, which means "Sheng Chu", with happiness but no wisdom; "longevity day" people have longevity but no wisdom. The above two difficulties are called "difficulties of music barrier". In addition, those who are "wise and intelligent" are self righteous, which is called the difficulty of "increasing evil"; those who are "before and after the Buddha" can not see the Buddha and hear the Dharma, which is called the difficulty of "being good". For example, Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of a dream of Red Mansions: "the silver that has been changed from childhood's three disasters and eight calamities still comes to you as a silver man." those who suffer from the three natural disasters will also suffer from the three natural disasters. The first is wind disaster, the second is fire disaster and the third is flood disaster. Among the eight difficulties, it is difficult for one to have humanity; for the other, it is difficult for one to get rid of a woman; for the three, it is difficult for one to have a body; for the four, it is difficult for one to have a middle land; for the five, it is difficult for one to have a right personality; for the six, it is difficult for one to have benevolence; for the seven, it is difficult for one to have peace; for the eight, it is difficult for one to meet the three treasures. The eight dilemmas of "zaxiu photography" in the volume of "seven signatures of Yunji" are: one is not to abandon the mind of Tao, two are not to know the teacher, three are not to live in idleness, four are not to give up the affairs of the world, five are not to cut love, six are not to make profit, seven are not to get rid of happiness and anger, and eight are to keep lust. the literary work journey to the West also describes the so-called "three calamities" and the various calamities that practitioners must suffer at a certain stage. If you want to prepare for three calamities and eight calamities, you need to cultivate the skill of self change. This leads to the plot of the seventy-two changes of the monkey king's practice. However, three years earlier, the patriarch ascended the throne again and talked with the public. What we talk about is the comparison of legal cases, and what we talk about is the appearance of foreskin. "Where is Wukong?" he asked Wukong knelt down and said, "I have." The grandmaster said, "what kind of Tao do you always cultivate?" Wukong said, "I've learned a lot about Dharma recently, and my roots are getting stronger." The patriarch said, "since you know the Dharma and nature, you will get the root cause. You have focused on the divine body, but you are only prepared for the" three disasters. " When Wukong heard about it, he pondered for a long time and said, "master's words are wrong. I often hear that Gao Delong has the same life with heaven. He has both fire and water, but he has no diseases. How can he have three disasters The grandmaster said: "this is the extraordinary way: seize the nature of heaven and earth, invade the mystery of the sun and the moon; after the completion of Dan, ghosts and gods are hard to tolerate. Although you stay in Yan Yishou, you need to see your nature, understand your heart, and avoid the thunderstorm five hundred years later. If you can't avoid it, you will die. Five hundred years later, the fire will burn you. This fire is not a heavenly fire, nor any ordinary fire. It is called "Yin Fire". From its own Yongquan acupoint burning, straight through the mud yuan palace, five internal organs into ashes, limbs are decayed, thousands of years of hard work, are illusory. In another 500 years, the wind will blow you. It's not the southeast northwest wind, it's not the golden wind, it's not the wind of flowers, willows, pines and bamboos, it's called "Mian wind.". From the fontanelle blowing into the six Fu organs, through the Dantian, through the nine orifices, bone and flesh Xiaoshu, the body self solution. So we have to avoid it. " (the second time to realize the true wisdom of cherubim, cut off the demons and return to the original spirit)

Chinese PinYin : sān zāi bā nàn