shed blood like water(xuè liú chéng hé)

shed blood like water

A river of blood, a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Xu è Li ú ch é NGH é, which means that many people have been killed. It comes from the biography of Li mi in the old book of Tang Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Blood flows into a channel

The origin of Idioms

"Li mi Zhuan in the old book of Tang Dynasty:" the corpses cover the wild, the blood flows into a river, the accumulated resentment is full of mountains and rivers, and the crying moves in the heaven and earth. "

Idiom usage

In the text of xiluozhou written by Zu Junyan of Tang Dynasty, it is said that "the corpse was covered in the wild, the blood flowed into a river, the resentment filled the mountains and rivers, and the cry moved the heaven and earth." Chapter 39 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty: "killing corpses everywhere, blood flowing into a river." According to Feng Menglong's Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, the master of the Marquis of Qi was also defeated. He was killed everywhere, and the blood flowed into a river Kang Youwei's answer to the overseas Chinese in North and South America on the fact that China can only be constitutionalized but not revolutionized in Qing Dynasty: "slaughtering cities in all provinces, the dead are numb.". "In a moment, the corpse is like a mountain. Chapter one hundred and nine of the complete story of the water margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty. He fought with King Zhou's soldiers and killed them everywhere. New stories by Lu Xun

Chinese PinYin : xuè liú chéng hé