be emaciated with grief
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "Yihu ǐ g ǔ L ì". It comes from the biography of Wei Biao in the later Han Dynasty.
Notes on Idioms
Sorrow: sorrow; ruin: damage the body; Gu Li: extremely thin, leaving only the skeleton.
The origin of Idioms
The biography of Wei Biao in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "filial piety is pure, parents die, mourning for three years, not out of the house. After a few years of medical treatment, he began to take medicine
Idiom usage
It is a complex sentence; it is a subject and a clause; it describes the mourning during filial piety. Example Liu Yiqing's "new sayings of the world · moral conduct" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "although he Qiao was prepared for ceremony, his air was not damaged; although Wang Rong was not prepared for ceremony, he was in mourning." The relatives have arrived to discuss setting up a son in the family's house, and then they will bury him. The young master Yu was so sad that he made the best of his friendship. The twelfth chapter of Wu Jingzi's scholars and the fourteenth chapter of Xia Jingqu's wild old man's Expositions in the Qing Dynasty: "when Su Chen saw the emperor's grief, he couldn't bear to return, so he rushed into the palace to play the emperor and wanted to die. Tang Zhixu's epitaph of emperor Qingtai's student Wu Xiu Yuan Gong (yuan Keli's great grandson) in the Qing Dynasty said, "I have been, Ding Wai is in trouble, I am sad to destroy my bones, I am lucky to offer sacrifices to Jun Li, I am ill to camp yuan, and the clan party is called Xiao Yan." When his mother died, he was devastated. Hearing the news of his death, the frail and sick old Wang was devastated.
Idiom story
Version 1: Wei Biao, whose name is Mengda, was born in Pingling, Fufeng, in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is the great grandson of Wei Xian, the Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty, the great grandson of Wei Hong, the governor of the East China Sea, and the grandson of Da Sima Wei Shang. Wei Biao likes to study and has rich knowledge. At the same time, he pays attention to filial piety and is very filial to his parents. After the death of his parents, he was devastated for three years and did not leave the hut beside the tomb where he lived in mourning. At the end of his mourning, he was bony and shapeless. After several years of treatment, he recovered. Later, Wei Biao was recruited by the imperial court and became a senior official. Wei Biao believed that filial piety could be one of the important criteria for selecting talents, and suggested to Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty: "the State takes the selection of talents as an important task, and filial piety should be the most important behavior of talents. Confucius said: "those who serve their parents' filial piety can transform this filial piety into loyalty to the monarch. Therefore, to find loyal officials, we must go to the family with filial sons." People who are loyal and filial are kind-hearted; sophisticated officials are mean hearted. " Emperor Zhang of Han adopted his suggestion. Wei Biao served as Emperor Ming and Zhang of the Han Dynasty, and was highly appreciated by the two emperors. He proposed many good policies to the imperial court, most of which were adopted. In the second edition, Wang Rong and He Qiao suffered a great funeral at the same time. Both Wang and he are famous for their filial piety. At this time, Wang Rong was so skinny that he could hardly support himself; He Qiao wailed and wept, which was in line with the funeral etiquette. Emperor Wu of Jin (SIMA Yan) said to Liu Zhongxiong (Liu Yi), "do you often visit Wang Rong and He Qiao? I heard that he Qiao is too sad, which is very worrying. " Liu Zhongxiong replied: "although he Qiao did his utmost in courtesy, his spirit was not damaged; although Wang Rong didn't abide by the etiquette, he was completely destroyed because of his grief. So I think he Qiao did his filial duty without destroying his life, but Wang Rong did his filial duty by dying. Your majesty, you don't have to worry about Heqiao, you should worry about wangrong. " Wang Rong, the famous filial son in ancient times, and He Qiao both lost their parents at the same time. He Qiao kept filial piety for three years according to the customs and habits, without any damage to his spirit. Wang Rong, on the other hand, built a shed in front of his parents' spirit. He accompanied his parents' spirit all day. He was very sad and ate very little. His whole body became as skinny as a log. After three years, he recovered after a long time of recuperation.
Chinese PinYin : āi huǐ gǔ lì
be emaciated with grief
dredge the moon out from the bottom of the water. shuǐ dǐ mō yuè
the nerves of the fingertips are linked with the heart. shí zhǐ lián xīn
brace up one while the others tumble down. dōng fú xī dǎo
distant relatives and next-door neighbors. yuǎn qīn jìn lín
romantic themes ; to waste money in houses of ill repute. xuě yuè fēng huā
the wonders of natural beauty are boundless. fēng yuè wú yá
ready to die the cruelest death for principles. gān xīn tú dì