Rotten tree

Rotten tree

As a Chinese idiom, Xi ǔ zh ū K ū m ù in pinyin refers to the decaying power or the old and useless people. It comes from the feeling of the book of hudejing.

The origin of Idioms

In Lu You's book of Song Dynasty, there is a feeling that "Seventy young men with white hair and withered trees are slightly the same."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.

Examples

In Feng Guifen's Gongqi Zeng Xie Kui of the Qing Dynasty, it is said that "once the army arrives, the rotten trees will also help the prestige; if the army does not arrive, the iron city will be reduced to ashes."