a general who rather prefers to be beheaded than to surrender

a general who rather prefers to be beheaded than to surrender

General guillotine, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à NT ó Uji à NGJ à n, which means a general who is determined to resist and would rather die than surrender. It comes from the biography of Zhang Fei in the history of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

The biography of Zhang Fei in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu, said: "Qing and other officials did not like to invade our state, but there were decapitated generals and no demoted generals in our state."

Idiom usage

To be formal; to be an object; to describe a hero. In Qing Dynasty Kong Shangren's Peach Blossom Fan robbing treasure: "except for death, there is no way to serve the country. All the three armies come to see the decapitated general!"

Idioms and allusions

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Liu Bei obtained Jingzhou, he was worried about Cao Cao's invasion, so he followed Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong's advice and marched to Sichuan. Liu Zhang worried about Cao Cao's invasion, so he gave Liu Bei some money and grain to defend Yizhou against Cao Cao. Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to Chengdu to capture governor Yan Yan in Bajun. Yan Yan refused to surrender, saying: only the decapitated general, no surrender general.