In modern Chinese, it refers to geese moaning everywhere. In modern Chinese, it refers to the moaning and crying of displaced victims, and is often used with "the people are in dire straits". As a predicate, attribute, clause and neutral word in a sentence, describe the scene of homelessness.
Mourning everywhere (pinyin: āi hóng biàn yě) is an idiom. It was first published in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Hongyan.
Idiom story
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the death of Zhou Yiwang, his son Zhou Liwang succeeded to the throne. At that time, there was a vassal state called Guo Rong in the Zhou Dynasty. The monarch of Guo Rong plundered the people's wealth and oppressed them. This kind of bad king who harms others and benefits himself should have been spurned by the Zhou Dynasty long ago. But I appreciate Rong and think he is very interested in himself, so I plan to reuse Rong.
The ministers of the Zhou Dynasty knew that Rong was a greedy and mercenary person, so they suggested that the appointment of such a person would lead to the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty. But Zhou Liwang didn't listen to the ministers' advice. Ren Rong not only turned the palace into an official, but also put the palace in charge of state affairs.
After Rong came to power, he slandered and demanded "patent" control of all the mountains and rivers in the Zhou Dynasty, and wrote a letter saying that all the benefits produced by all the mountains, rivers, trees and mountains in the Zhou Dynasty belonged to all, and no one was allowed to make a living in the mountains and rivers.
After the promulgation of this law, woodcutters can't go up the mountain to cut wood, hunters can't go up the mountain to hunt, fishermen can't go down the river to fish, practitioners can't go up the mountain to collect medicine, and farmers can't go up the mountain to reclaim land. Countless people are blocked by this heinous "patent" system. At that time, people's grievances were boiling, and "patents" aroused people's anger, and people cursed one after another.
King Zhou Li also sent many guards to monitor the people, and arrested and executed anyone who was dissatisfied with, criticized or cursed the patent. Under this tyranny, everyone is in danger, and the sages are in a constant state of fear, and dare to speak out. Seeing countless people complaining that patents were killed, people were too scared to speak.
After Ronghe implemented the "patent", in a few years, our wealth piled up like a mountain. However, the people are in hunger and poverty, and there are starving people in rags everywhere from the capital to the countryside. The displaced hungry people are all over the countryside, just like those wild geese who are homeless in winter and can only gather in swamps and wilderness to starve and freeze, giving out bursts of wailing.