戍鼓断人行

戍鼓斷人行
shùgǔ duàn rén xíng
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 the garrison drums sound and no one travels the roads

Examples

HSK 7-9
Dù Fǔ de " shùgǔ duàn rén xíng " xiěchū le zhànluàn zhōng biānchéng de huāngliáng.
Du Fu's 'the garrison drums sound and no one travels the roads' captures the bleakness of a frontier town in wartime.

Tips

history
The opening line of 杜甫's 月夜忆舍弟, written in the autumn of 759 at Qinzhou during the An Lushan rebellion. The garrison drums marked the curfew, after which no one could be out on the roads. 行 here is "to travel", not the háng of 银行.

Stroke Order

戍 shù
鼓 gǔ
断 duàn
人 rén
行 xíng