death of one's son(sàng míng zhī tòng)

death of one's son

Pain of bereavement, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à NGM í ngzh à t à ng, which means Zixia died his son and cried blind in ancient times. It refers to the sadness of losing one's son. It's from the book of rites on the Tangong.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, tangongshang: "Zixia lost his son and lost his brightness."

Idiom usage

Among his colleagues, one person passed on ten, ten passed on hundred, and many people already knew that he had suffered from "mourning". (Chapter 87 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty)

Analysis of Idioms

Pain embraces the West River

Chinese PinYin : sàng míng zhī tòng