Eating with wind and eating with snow(cān fēng niè xuě)

Eating with wind and eating with snow

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ā NF ē ngni è Xu ě, meaning the hardship of outdoor life. It comes from the story of flying pill, sorrow under the moon by Zhang Jing of Ming Dynasty.

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; used in outdoor life

Analysis of Idioms

Eat like snow

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Jing of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "the story of flying pill · the sorrow under the moon" that "when you hurt your father and mother, you eat the wind and bite the snow; when you hurt your aunt, you live for death."

Idiom explanation

It describes the hardships of life in the wild.

Chinese PinYin : cān fēng niè xuě