All is missing

All is missing

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ò UJ ì nzh ō NGM í ng, which means that people's life has come to an end. From the orphan.

The origin of Idioms

The fourth chapter of the orphan: "the old man died all day long after he missed the bell, and he was able to be your companion."

Idiom usage

Example "epitaphs of Ma Zhen and his wife Zhang" in the collection of epitaphs of Han, Wei, southern and Northern Dynasties: "when the bell rings, the arrow flies and the wind blows." It is also called "missing the bell". Li Xinchuan, Song Dynasty, wrote in the first month of the second year of Jianyan, which is a record of the years since Jianyan, that "the officials who failed to sing the bell, and the servants who didn't dare to beg for their bodies to retreat, were not greedy. In fact, they were the two saints who hunted in the north." Ming Dynasty Wang Daokun's a journey to the five lakes: "although this word is slang, it is clearly said that it is a self inflicted disaster to miss the bell and go on more than one journey."