cry and shed bitter tears(tòng kū liú tì)

cry and shed bitter tears

Crying, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ò NGK ū Li ú t ì, meaning to describe the appearance of crying with tears. It comes from the biography of Jia Yi in Hanshu.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Jia Yi in Hanshu written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it can be divided into three categories: one is crying bitterly, the other is shedding tears, and the other is changtaixi

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate and attributive. In Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's Hu Gong Xing Zheng: "this knee can't be recovered when it's bent It can be the one with long breath. "In the biography of Hu Quan in the history of Song Dynasty," this knee can't be extended once it is bent, and the national power can't be revived. It's a long time to cry. " Chapter 48 of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty: when the old woman heard this, she cried bitterly and called a sedan chair to persuade her daughter to go to her in laws. Mao Zedong's "persisting in hard struggle and keeping close ties with the masses" said: "I heard that when rating last year, some people made a scene and cried bitterly."

Analysis of Idioms

They are both in tears and in tears, but they are in agony

Chinese PinYin : tòng kū liú tì