in the lower

in the lower

Jiuquanxia is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Ji ǔ Qu á nzh ī Xi à, which means the place where the dead are buried, that is, in the underworld. From seven sorrows.

Notes on Idioms

Jiuquan: underground.

The origin of Idioms

The poem "seven sorrows" written by Ruan Yu of Han Dynasty: "the chamber of nine springs in the dark is a long night."

Idiom usage

As an object; used to describe being underground after death. In the biography of Wang Yangping in the book of Wei: "if you are a dead ghost, you will never forget the beauty of heaven, and you will hate deeply." Yuan · Guan Hanqing "Dou E yuan" the fourth fold: for your child, do the gift of life and death, I will be under nine springs, can also close my eyes. In Chapter 98 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty, fan Sui ordered his head to be painted as a drowning vessel, saying, "you made your guests drunk and drown me. Now you are under the nine springs, and you often drown me." "If my brother is punished, my parents won't even close their eyes at the bottom of the spring." Kobayashi came to the cemetery with his doctoral Certificate in both hands to comfort his teacher.