Beat the bull and kill the horse

Beat the bull and kill the horse

Beating cattle and horses, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ā oni ú Z ǎ im ǎ, which means killing livestock. From huanghuayu.

Analysis of Idioms

Killing pigs and sheep

Idiom usage

Now I'm beating an ox and killing a horse to tell heaven that I'd like to die together and live together. The third part of Ming Dynasty's Wumingshi's "the end of Taoyuan"

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of Huang Hua Yu written by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty: "I'm here to knock on the ox and slaughter the horse to make a happy feast."