Sweep away the grave and watch the funeral(sǎo mù wàng sàng)

Sweep away the grave and watch the funeral

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is s à om à w à ng s à ng, which means to sweep the cemetery to wait for people to be buried. A cruel official must be rewarded with evil. It's just around the corner. It comes from the book of Han Dynasty, biography of cruel officials, Yan Yannian.

Analysis of Idioms

Bring forth the new through the old waves, all at sea, the as like as two peas, and the other, and the blind, and the two, the same as the two.

The origin of Idioms

Yan Yannian: when Yan Yannian moved to Henan, his mother came from the East China Sea and wanted to go from yannianla to Luoyang. Mother surprised, that Yannian said after more than years old, Yannian fruit failure.

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing. example if we accumulate good and evil, then we have to seal the high gate and sweep away the grave to look after the funeral. Is it not to stop the blame and answer the evil? Book of the Sui Dynasty: biography of hermit Li Shiqian

Idioms and allusions

During the Han Dynasty, Yan Yannian was the prefect of Henan Province. His mother came to Luoyang with him from Donghai. Once, I happened to see the memorial leading to the execution of the prisoner. His mother was shocked and said, "I don't want to see Chuang Tzu being killed! OK! Go to Nu Dong GUI and clean the graveyard! " After more than a year, Yan Yannian was punished.

Chinese PinYin : sǎo mù wàng sàng