Lose heart
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k ū t ǐ Hu ī x ī n, meaning that the body is like a dead tree and the heart is like ashes. Describe extreme negativity. It's the same as "lose heart". It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.
The origin of Idioms
In Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun, it is said that "the solid form can make you as haggard, while the solid heart can add dead ashes."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: withered and disheartened
Idiom usage
All thoughts are born out of the mind. If you lose heart, all diseases will disappear. Volume 94 of seven signatures of Cloud Collection by Zhang Junfang in Song Dynasty
Lose heart
half literary and half vernacular - bàn wén bàn bái
Half Analects governing the world - bàn bù lún yǔ zhì tiān xià
may the hoofs of the unicorn bring you much luck -- may you have many good sons - lín zhǐ chéng xiáng
strong enough to pull up mountains and raise tripods - bá shān jǔ dǐng