Bad luck and hard times
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ù nzhu ō sh í Ji ā n, which means bad luck and adversity. It comes from the second fold of cunxiao Da Hu.
The origin of Idioms
The second part of Yuan Chen Yiren's "save filial piety and fight tiger" is: "it's like ban Dingyuan at Yumen pass. His military tactics of space learning are difficult, so he has no way to stay here."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing
Chinese PinYin : yùn zhuō shí jiān
Bad luck and hard times
Seven broken and eight continued. qī duàn bā sù
in order to achieve one 's treacherous purpose. yǐ shòu qí jiān
like a crane 's bone and a pine 's appearance. hè gǔ sōng zī