Push away the rotten

Push away the rotten

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Tu ī K ū sh é f ǔ, which means to destroy the dead. It means that decadent forces are easily defeated. It comes from Emperor Guangwu Ji I in the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan Hong of the Jin Dynasty wrote in the first chapter of Guangwu emperor in the later Han Dynasty: "today, when I go to the capital, I use Chen Shanggu's and Yuyang's troops and horses, but I also go out of Taiyuan and Daijun's, and for decades, I go back and ride suddenly to run to the mob, like fighting against the dead and corrupting the ears."

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym: destroy the withered and decadent

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing