chuījiùzhīqī
sorrow of losing one's wife
炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī
- sorrow of losing one's wife
- A literary idiom for the grief caused by the death of a wife; derived from an anecdote where cooking in a mortar (jiù) symbolized being without a pot (fǔ), a homophone for wife (fù) in certain dialects
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- 炊臼 chuījiù