一路哭
yī​lù​kū

suffering across a whole region

一路哭 yī​lù​kū
suffering across a whole region
(literary) used to describe a situation where people across an entire region are suffering or living in misery. The term originates from a story about the Song Dynasty official Fan Zhongyan, who argued that it is better for the corrupt family of an official to cry than for an entire region (then called a "lu") to cry from bad governance.

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