Beating the drum

Beating the drum

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī R ǎ NGG ǔ f ù, which means that the world is peaceful and the people live and work in peace and contentment. From Zhuangzi horseshoe.

Notes on Idioms

Hit soil: an ancient throwing game; drum belly: drum belly, meaning satiety.

The origin of Idioms

Zhuangzi horseshoe: "when Huxley was a husband, he didn't know what to do in his residence and what to do in his behavior. He was full of nourishment and cheerfulness, and he swam in his belly."

Idiom usage

It refers to the peaceful and prosperous times. The eleventh volume of the collection of Arts and culture quoted from Emperor Century written by Emperor Fumi of the Jin Dynasty: "in the world of Emperor Yao, there must be peace in the world, and the common people have nothing to do. There are fifty old people attacking the earth." You're a bandit? In the end, there was no way to see the Ming Dynasty, but not to beat the drum and beat the loam to make music of Yao and Shun? (the book with Pei Xun by Liu Zongyuan in Tang Dynasty)