Riding a donkey and singing on the ba
It is a Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is Q í L ǘ y í Nb à sh à n ɡ, which means the same as "riding a donkey to ask for a sentence". It's used as an allusion to chant bitterly. It is the same as "riding a donkey and asking for a sentence".
Idioms and allusions
Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "who rides a donkey to chant on the Ba, who rides a horse to pass the blue pass."
Discrimination of words
Degree of common use: Average
Riding a donkey and singing on the ba
An evil son and a lonely minister - niè zǐ gū chén
palming off substitute for the real thing - lǐ dài táo jiāng
The last leg of a journey marks the halfway point. - xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí
Eclipses of the sun and the moon - rì yuè jiāo shí
Discerning the past and the present - dòng jiàn gǔ jīn