the hardest life of a widow(yǐn bīng rú bò)

the hardest life of a widow

Yin Bing Ru Bo, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ Nb ī NgR ú B, meaning to drink cold water and eat bitter things. It refers to the situation of hardship and depression. It also describes the hardships of life. It comes from three years as a history of assassins.

Analysis of Idioms

Drink ice and eat Berberis

The origin of Idioms

Bai Juyi's poem "three years is the history of assassins" in Tang Dynasty: "three years is the history of assassins, drink ice and eat Berberis again."

Idiom usage

Combined; as predicate, attribute; commendatory words; to describe the hardships of life. A chaste woman is not always determined, she must not. (notes of Yuewei thatched cottage, Volume 13, by Ji Yun of Qing Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : yǐn bīng rú bò