cry piteously for food

cry piteously for food

Crying for food, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is á o á OD à IB à, which means wailing and waiting for feeding. It refers to the scene of hungry people longing for food, and mostly describes the miserable situation of the famine victims. From the book of songs Xiaoya Hongyan. Aoao: wailing student. Feeding: feeding.

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"The book of songs · Xiaoya · wild geese": "the wild geese are flying, whining and whining." XunYue of the Han Dynasty wrote in the third chapter of chengdi in the former Han Dynasty: "after several years of governance, the whole world was exhausted, the country was exhausted, the Treasury was empty, and even the common people were crying bitterly."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] hunger and cold, crying for hunger and crying for cold [antonym] plenty of food and clothing

Idiom usage

In Song Mu Xiu's Shangjian Guanxing langzhongshu: "a poor family sends money to the capital, but they don't give money, and the old and young count, and they are crying for food." (2) Volume 33 of the real record of emperor Xi Zong in Ming Dynasty: "in April of the third year of Tianqi, Mao wenlongtang, commander in chief of the pingliao Dynasty, went to Dingmao (the eighth day of the Lunar New Year). He reported that he saw that the soldiers had been short of food for two months now, and they were crying for food, begging for military pay. Yuan Keli, governor of Denglai, was invited by the governor. He also said that the soldiers guarding the frozen Huaihe islands had been reported, and the undeveloped people of Kaiyang and Sanshan islands had been boarded in succession. Shen yourong, commander-in-chief, led the elite to go to sea on March 12. But I'm afraid that if there's a shortage of food, it's hard for soldiers to use their lives. "