存亡继绝

Explanation: Restore destroyed country, cut off the continuation of the aristocratic family. 　　Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; to the brink of extinction by the continuity 　　Source: "Guliang Xi Public Seventeen Years": "Following the survival of Duke Huan had never tasted the power, so the gentleman whom are also taboo." 　　Examples: He is to Ming Wang Road, identified personnel, clear right and wrong unworthy, ~, from the waste fill spacious for later monarch turtle Kam. (Qing "Classic Records Han Chang On the ninth") Thesaurus:  survive or perish Must continue, survive or perish Following the absolutely, survive or perish Must continue