Beating the ground out of one's stomach

Beating the ground out of one's stomach

It used to mean that people had enough to eat and had leisure to play. Later, it was used as a ceremony to praise peace and prosperity. The same as "beating the drum".

Idioms and allusions

[source] he Tuo, a biography of scholars in the Sui Dynasty: "in ancient times, there was no music, and music was in the period of beating the drum and beating the earth." Lu Zhaolin's stele of Li Jun, the leader of Yizhou Zhizhen temple in Tang Dynasty: "those who dig wells and plough fields don't know nature, and those who beat their bellies and their soil don't know Dili." [example] the biography of Li mi in the old book of the Tang Dynasty: "in the whole world, the land is on the shore of the earth, the flat wood is far away from the quicksand, and the vast sea is poor in Danxue. All of them dig up their bellies and attack the earth, dig up wells and plough fields, so as to achieve the goal of peace and promote the people's longevity."

Discrimination of words

[usage] used as predicate and attribute; refers to the peaceful and prosperous times