鼓盆之戚

1. • drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 庄子 zhuāngzǐ grieving for his lost wife)
2. • fig. grief for a lost wife

Character by character

• 鼓(gǔ)drum
• 盆(pén)basin
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 戚(qī)grief