Érzi yìwài qùshì, lǎorén chéngshòu zhe bái fà rén sòng hēi fà rén de tòngkǔ.
After the son died in an accident, the old father bore the agony of burying his own child.
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In Chinese culture, the natural order is the young burying the old. Reversing this is considered the deepest family tragedy — hence the idiom's gravity.
