Xitai wails bitterly(xī tái tòng kū)

Xitai wails bitterly

[explanation] at the end of Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang was killed when he failed to resist Yuan Dynasty. Eight years later, Xie AO and his friends went to the West platform to mourn, and wrote the story of mourning on the West platform. Later, it was used to describe the pain of national subjugation.

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Idiom information

Xi Tai wails bitterly

Ancient times

To cry (orwail) bitterly; to cry's eyes (or heart) out

[rhyme words] there is no place to find such things as pillow books, embroidering axe and stepping on iron shoes. They are all free of effort, red and purple, icy and snowy skin, different words and people, pearls between the eyes, talent, pearls without the naked eye and skin

The origin of Idioms

Xietai cried bitterly, xiefa wrote to Zheng YiWeng. The fourth part of Liu Qiji's poem of cherishing people

Idiom story

At the end of the Song Dynasty, patriotic general Wen Tianxiang was killed in Xitai after the failure of anti yuan war. Eight years later, Xie AO and his friends went to the West platform to remember and pay homage to Wen Tianxiang. They wept bitterly, and wrote an elegy "the lament of climbing the West platform" to describe the incident, expressing the pain of national subjugation and the worship of Wen Tianxiang.

Examples of Idioms

Ten years of romantic love, who can understand the lamenting poems of Xitai. Ye Ye's poem shurenzi gongtuoji Hou

Chinese PinYin : xī tái tòng kū