dwell in mountain caves

dwell in mountain caves

The Chinese idiom, CH á OJ ū Xu é ch ǔ in pinyin, means to live in a tree or cave. It refers to the living conditions of human beings before they have houses. It comes from Lu Zhiming's drama rat Fu in the later Wei Dynasty.

Idiom usage

In order to evade the punishment of the law, he hid in the deep mountains and forests and lived in the caves from then on. However, the recovery of the French Open did not avoid the punishment.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Zhiming of later Wei Dynasty wrote in the ode to drama and rats: "the excess of the sole and the deficiency of the discharge, the nest in the cave, all drink and eat in the mountains."

Idiom explanation

Live in trees or caves. It refers to the living conditions of human beings before they have houses.