hopelessness

hopelessness

Crying at the end of a journey is a Chinese idiom, pronounced Qi ó NGT ú zh ī K ū, which means that the original meaning is to be sad because the car has no way to go. Later, it also refers to the despair of being in trouble. It comes from the biography of Ruan Ji in the book of Jin.

Idioms and allusions

original text

Volume 49 of the book of Jin (biographies of Ruan Ji) - 36 - Ji's sister-in-law had a taste of guining, and met and left each other. Or sneer at it, Ji said: "ceremony does not set evil for me!" The young women in the neighborhood have good looks and should sell wine. By tasting and drinking, when drunk, he lies on his side. I don't think I'm a member of the family, and I don't doubt it. Military women are talented and die unmarried. I didn't know his father and brother, so I went to cry and returned. The outside is magnanimous and the inside is pure. When the rate of Italy alone driving, not from the path, the car track poor, often cry instead. He tasted Guangwu, watched the battles of Chu and Han Dynasties, and sighed: "there are no heroes in the times, which makes Lizi famous!" After climbing Wugu mountain and sighing at the capital, he wrote a poem of heroes. He died in the winter of the fourth year of Jingyuan at the age of 54.

translation

Ruan Ji's sister-in-law once went back to her mother's home to see her off. He was ridiculed. Ruan Ji said, "is etiquette set for me?" The young woman next door is beautiful. They sell wine in shops. Ruan Ji often drinks with young women. When I'm drunk, I lie beside the young woman. Ruan Ji didn't think there was anything to avoid. The young woman's husband did not doubt anything when he saw it. A soldier's daughter was talented and beautiful. She died before she got married. Ruan Ji didn't know her father or elder brother, but went straight to mourn. Cry enough to go home. His appearance is magnanimous, his character is sincere, and what he does is like this. Sometimes I drive by myself and go wherever I want. If I don't go on the right road, I can't go, so I go back in pain. He once boarded Guangwu and looked at the place where Chu and Han fought. He sighed: "there were no heroes at that time, which made him famous." Climbing Wugu mountain, looking at the capital, sighing. So he wrote a poem of heroes. Ruan Ji died in the winter of the fourth year of Jingyuan at the age of 54.

interpretation

Ruan Ji "when the rate of Italy alone driving, not from the path, car trace poor, often cry and reverse." Ruan Ji is not limited to the etiquette and customs, and he can't follow his way. "Crying at the end of the road" originally refers to his crying because the car has no way to go, but also describes his sorrow because he is in trouble. Also referred to as "poor way cry", "poor way".

The origin of Idioms

"Ruan Ji biography of the book of Jin:" when the rate of Italy alone driving, not from the path, poor car tracks, often cry and return "Ruan Ji is so rampant that he can't cry at the end of the road," said Wang Bo of Tang Dynasty in preface to Tengwang Pavilion

Idiom usage

The preface to Tengwang Pavilion written by Wang Bo of Tang Dynasty: "Meng tasted noble and clean, and he was free to serve the country; Ruan Ji was rampant, but he was crying at the end of the road?"; the collection of gengzi mountains, poems to chant (Part 4) of the Northern Zhou Dynasty: "only he was crying at the end of the road, and he knew that it was difficult for him to walk." The fourth volume of Guangyang Zaji written by Liu Xianting in Qing Dynasty: "it's not worth it. If you cry at the end of your life, you only have 18 wen'er in your pocket." Tang Dufu's "autumn dusk wasted Pei Daozhou's notes" said: "tooth falling is not a person who has no intention, and his tongue is shameful, and he cries at the end of his life." Yan Yanzhi of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "five Jun Yong Ruan infantrymen": "things can't be discussed, the way is poor, there is no sorrow." Liu Su of Tang Dynasty wrote in the new language of the Tang Dynasty, Chifa: "those who are poor in this way, if they don't edit it, they should be suffering."