Liver and kidney

Liver and kidney

He Gan Shen, a Chinese idiom and Pinyin, is a metaphor for exhausting one's mind; it is often described as the hardship of one's career, work and literary creation; it is the same as "He Xin GUI Mu". From Xu Yongzhou's tomb inscription.

The origin of Idioms

Song Lian's tomb inscription of Xu Yongzhou in Ming Dynasty: "the world's name is minzhou poetry school, and the ark takes evil and satirizes and chants it. It's hard to understand the liver and kidney, and it's time to surpass it."

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute, adverbial; often used in figurative sentences.