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under the sod

Under the yellow spring, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu á ngqu á nzh à Xi à, which means the place where people are buried after death. It comes from Zuozhuan yinnian.

Notes on Idioms

Yellow spring: refers to the underground spring, people die buried in the ground.

The origin of Idioms

"Zuo Zhuan · Yin A.D.": the oath says: "it is not as good as the yellow spring, and there is no meeting."

Analysis of Idioms

Near synonym: jiuquanxia

Idiom usage

As an object; used to describe being underground after death. example in that unknown yellow spring, how happy. The 18th chapter of biography of heroes and heroines by Wen Kang in Qing Dynasty