strike the head on the ground and call on heaven

strike the head on the ground and call on heaven

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ā NGD ì h ū Ti ā n, which means to shout for heaven and hit the ground with your head; it describes extreme sadness. It's from officialdom.

Notes on Idioms

Grab the ground: touch the ground.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Bin's "Tang Zi's posthumous note" 2 of the Qing Dynasty: "I was surprised to hear that Xie Ren was always rushing to the ground, and I was crying to strike the market."

Idiom usage

I'm very sad. I'm very sad. The fourteenth chapter of Li Baojia's Officialdom: the boss and grandmother can't cry when they see that their daughter-in-law is dead