take death calmly

take death calmly

As a Chinese idiom, it is pronounced sh ì s ǐ R ú Gu ī, which means to treat death as usual as going home, and to describe not afraid of sacrificing life. It comes from Han Feizi, the lower left of waichu.

The origin of Idioms

"Han Feizi: the third army has formed an array, which makes the scholars feel as if they are dead. The minister is not as good as the son becoming a father."

Guanzi xiaokuang, written by Guan Zhong in pre Qin Dynasty, said: "in the plain, there is no rut in the chariot, and there is no heel in the scholar. In the drum, the soldiers of the three armed forces regard death as if they were going home, and the minister is not as good as the prince's father."

"Lu's spring and Autumn Annals don't bow" says: "the soldiers of the three armies regard death as if they were going home."

The 50th chapter of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty written by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "the Minister of history has a praise saying: magnificent, the leader of assassins! He who hears righteousness is able to be an apprentice, and regards death as his home. The newspaper butcher saves Zhao, the body exterminates the name to hang. Where the Huaiyin is, you will be angry. "

Ming Feng Menglong's Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (1911): "although he didn't die, he killed himself to be benevolent and regarded death as his return. His contribution was at that time, and his reputation was on the decline. Why don't he wish it?"

Guo Moruo's the terror in full swing: we have already regarded death as if we were at home, and we are walking our road with great strides.

Idiom usage

He is not afraid of death

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: sacrifice one's life to forget one's death, sacrifice one's life for righteousness, and regard death as one's return

Antonym: fear of death

Xiehouyu: singing a song on the verge of execution; Dong Cunrui blows up a blockhouse

Lantern riddle: singing Daqu before execution

[Tongyun CI] subtle, trouble, arch wood is not dangerous, know white and keep dark, tiger wolf power, despair, catch up, collapse Xingfei, fake tiger Zhangwei, water flies away

Idiom story

In 1904, despite her husband's obstruction, Qiu Jin sold her jewelry and went to Japan. She met Huang Xing, Chen Tianhua, Song Jiaoren and so on. She joined Sun Yat Sen's alliance. In 1906, she led a Death Squadron composed of students studying in Japan to return to China and served as the supervisor of Datong school. Later, Xu Xilin was arrested because of the failure of the uprising. Before his execution, he said, "the revolutionaries are not afraid of death, they will kill if they want to.".

Emperor Taizong released 300 prisoners to return home to visit their relatives and agreed to return to die. As a result, 300 people came back to die on schedule. Emperor Taizong was very moved and pardoned all the capital crimes.