deep sorrow

deep sorrow

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Chu í x ī NQ ì Xu è, which means to beat your chest and cry so bitterly that you can't make a sound, just like blood in your eyes. It describes extreme grief. It comes from Li Ling's reply to Su Wu Shu of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Ling's answer to Su Wu Shu in the Han Dynasty: "he Tu Zhi has not been established, but his resentment has become, and Ji Wei has not been punished, so this mausoleum looks up to heaven and weeps blood."

Idiom usage

In Li Shangyin's "mourning for Pei's aunt", it is said that "the heart of the vertebrae cries for blood, who knows what to sue."

Analysis of Idioms

To beat one's heart to the bone