I. Discouraged
Vernacular interpretation: discouraged and disappointed, demoralized.
Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
Author: Liang Qichao
Origin: Hunan School of Current Affairs, "If you do not have firmness, you will be disheartened once you are frustrated."
Translation: If you don't have firm strength, you will be disheartened once you are frustrated
Two: Hang your head down
Interpretation in vernacular: describes the look of low emotion when you are disappointed or frustrated
Century: Tang
Author: Han Yu
Origin: "Sending the poor to their homes": "The master then hung his head in shame; and went up to his hand to thank him."
Translation: the master was then downcast; he went up to say thank you
Three: depressed
Vernacular interpretation: depressed: the look of sorrow; widowed: less. It describes the bitterness in the heart. It means to be sullen.
Dynasty: Warring States
Author: Qu Yuan
Origin: "Nine Chapters": "The heart is depressed with sorrow; the only eternal sigh is to increase the hurt."
Translation: heart sullen a ball of sadness ah; lonely sighing constantly sad
Four, gloomy sadness
Vernacular Interpretation: refers to the look of sadness and depression of the heart and mind.
Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
Author: Baiyi Jushi of Huaiyin
Source: the first volume of Pottery Heaven Records: "Inquiring about the mother in a bonfire lamp; like the bleakness of the butterflies in autumn."
Translation: Lighting a lamp to inquire about one's mother; as if an autumnal butterfly's heart and mind were sad and depressed.
Fifth: Sullenness
Vernacular interpretation: unhappy in the heart because of something unsatisfactory
Dynasty: Ming
Author: Luo Guanzhong
Origin: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 18th episode: "And I am afraid that I will be laughed at; and so I spend all my time in sullenness."
Translation: and I am afraid that I will be laughed at; so I am unhappy in my heart all day