body and shadow comforting each other

body and shadow comforting each other

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x í ngy à ngxi à ngdi à o, which means that only one's own body and shadow are together to comfort each other. I'm very lonely and I don't have a partner. It comes from the list of poems of shangzhigong Yingzhao and the list of petition.

The origin of Idioms

1. According to the poem table of shangchonggong Yingzhao written by Wei Caozhi of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "stealing the chapter of" Xiangshu "is impolite, and the meaning of death is impolite (2) in Li Mi's Chen Qing Biao of Jin Dynasty: "standing alone, hanging on each other."

Idiom usage

He is very poor.

Idiom story

After the unification of the whole country, Emperor Wu of Jin promoted "governing the world with filial piety", advocating filial piety to parents and respect for the elderly. He wanted to use the Western Shu minister Lang Li Mi, so he issued an imperial edict to appoint Li Mi as a doctor. Li mi didn't want to be an official, so he wrote a petition to Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, saying that he and his grandmother were closely related and depended on each other, and that he would come out to be an official after serving his grandmother.