strike the head on the ground and call on heaven

strike the head on the ground and call on heaven

It is a Chinese idiom, which means to cry for heaven with sorrow. Describes a look of extreme grief and despair. It's from xingshihengyan.

explain

Pathetique: sad, sad. Cry out in sorrow. Describes a look of extreme grief and despair.

Source of allusion

Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty, Volume 10 of Xingshi Hengyan: "another two days later, husband and wife died one after another, and their two sons cried bitterly."

Discrimination of words

Synonym: cry for heaven and earth commonly used degree: commonly used emotional color: commendatory words; grammatical usage: as predicate and adverbial; to describe the extreme of grief; idiom structure: combined type; generation time: ancient times