the skies were falling and the earth rising(tiān cuī dì tā)

the skies were falling and the earth rising

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti ā NCU ī D ì t ā, which means to describe a major event and a huge sound. From the moon Pavilion.

Analysis of Idioms

Collapse of the earth

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's "moon worship Pavilion" wedge: "you treat the white bone central plains like lying hemp. Although it's a war, it's a disaster. I must think of my son and mother coming home every morning. "

Idiom usage

It is used as an object and attribute to describe a great catastrophe. All the princes were shocked when they heard the drums and shouts outside the pass. The fifth chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty and the fifty fourth chapter of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty: "all Chu soldiers show their military prowess, and all of them show their prestige, which is clearly like the collapse of the sea, the collapse of the mountains and the collapse of the earth."

Chinese PinYin : tiān cuī dì tā