雨打风吹去

雨打風吹去

yǔ dǎ fēng chuī qù

quotation

Meanings

1 beaten by rain and blown away by wind
2 fig. weathered and scattered into nothing by time
3 an image of ruin and oblivion

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

这些老房子经过几十年风雨，雨打风吹去，所剩无几。

Zhèxiē lǎo fángzi jīngguò jǐshí nián fēngyǔ, yǔ dǎ fēng chuī qù, suǒshèngwújǐ.

After decades of storms, these old houses have been battered away - few remain.

HSK 7-9

昔日的荣耀早已雨打风吹去。

Xīrì de róngyào zǎoyǐ yǔ dǎ fēng chuī qù.

The glory of former days has long since been beaten by rain and blown away by wind.

Tips

history

From Xin Qiji's Southern Song ci 永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古: 舞榭歌台，风流总被，雨打风吹去 - 'dancing pavilions and singing stages, and all that was splendid, have been beaten by rain and blown away by wind.' A lament for vanished heroism.

usage

Often cited in full as 风流总被雨打风吹去. Deeply melancholic - used in essays about ruin, transience, and historical forgetting.

Stroke Order

雨 yǔ

打 dǎ

风 fēng

吹 chuī

去 qù