No fireworks(bù chī yān huǒ shí)

No fireworks

Pyrotechnic food: cooked food. Taoism believes that immortals can not eat cooked food. In the old days, it was used to praise poems for their superb conception and elegant words.

Idiom story

During the Song Dynasty, Wang Jiu was seriously ill at the age of 13. His father took him to Qinghua temple and made a wish to make him a Taoist. In his dream, Wang Jiumeng saw a white haired Taoist surnamed Yin who told him not to eat cooked grain and gave him cypress branches. After Wang Jiu wakes up, he no longer eats grain, but drinks fresh spring. Taizong of Song Dynasty gave him the name of Zhao natural.

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In Song Dynasty, Ruan Yue's the first collection of general tortoises in poetry, Wen Qianxian and Li Gong chose their generation to write long sentences for their family. Later, he came back with Dongpo. After reading his poem, Po sighed: "this is not the speech of eating fireworks and eating people's way." Volume 9 quotation of Zhifang Shihua

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Pyrotechnic food: cooked food. Taoism believes that immortals can not eat as predicate and attribute; refers to different common cooked food. In the old days, it was used to praise poems for their superb conception and elegant words.

Idiom list

I see that you always calm your mind and nourish your nature. Although you have some truth, how can you know the above deeds and watch them. The seventieth chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty

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