Girth reduction

Girth reduction

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à Iji à NY à ow é I, which means to describe illness, worry and loss. It comes from the biography of Prince Zhaoming in the book of Liang.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of Liang, the biography of Prince Zhaoming: "the body is strong and the girth is ten, and the girth is reduced by more than half." It is also called "belt and fence reduction".

Idiom usage

It is used as object and attribute to describe people's illness and sorrow. example Song Xin Qiji's "Magnolia flower slow" CI: "an de wheel four corners, can't bear to reduce waist circumference." In the poem Shangqiu written by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "when you are lazy and slow, you can see that when you are in trouble, you can reduce the encirclement."