Steamed pear(āi lí zhēng shí)

Steamed pear

Ai Li steamed food, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "IL í zh ē ngsh í", meaning to eat Ai Li steamed. It's a metaphor for not knowing the goods. To spoil good things in a muddle. It's from a new account of the world: light slander.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: burn the harp and cook the crane [antonym]: unique insight

Idiom usage

I don't know how to eat pears in my old age. ——"Toothache feeling" (Lu You, Southern Song Dynasty) there are a lot of people who "mourn pear steaming food" these days.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, wrote in his book a new account of the world: light slander: "every time Huannan County sees people unhappy, he often says," if you have a pear in your family, you should never eat it again. "

Idiom story

During the Jin Dynasty, the pears planted by Aizhong family in Jinling were delicious, and the taste would be changed if they were steamed. Every time general Huan Wen was dissatisfied with the people, he said, "if you get the pear from AI family, can you stop steaming it?" It's stupid to laugh at each other.

Chinese PinYin : āi lí zhēng shí