pass the night in the open

pass the night in the open

Sleeping in the grass, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ǎ ox í NGL ù s ù, which means walking in the grass and sleeping in the open; it describes the hardship and hurry of people who walk a long way. It comes from the biography of Xie Xuan in the book of Jin.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Xie Xuan in the book of Jin, "when we heard that there was a crane inside, we all thought that the king's master had arrived, and he lived in the grass and in the open, and he was hungry and cold again. The dead were 17-8 years old."

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attribute; describe the hardships of the journey. He had to change his name, make a strange trail, and roam on the grass and sleep in the open. In the preface to the guide book written by Wen Tianxiang of Song Dynasty, Guo she, Han Jian, Liang yaomi, servants, Ying Buyang, Guo Yan, Ying Qi, etc. all of them were covered with dirty hair and lived in the grass like a funeral. (Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty)