Follow the wind in the grass(cǎo yǎn fēng cóng)
Follow the wind in the grass
Cao Yan Feng Cong is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is C ǎ oy ǎ NF ē NGC ó ng, which is a metaphor for moral, cultural and educational reformers. It comes from Yan Yuan, the Analects of Confucius.
The origin of Idioms
Yan Yuan, the Analects of Confucius: "the virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of a villain, the grass, the wind on the grass will die down."
Idiom usage
Example baopuzi · Yongxing written by Gehong of Jin Dynasty: "after the Ming Dynasty, the world was ruled by the wind, the grass was thinned, and the way was harmonious and mellow." According to Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty's "CE Uighur Khan Jiahao Wen", it is said that "the East spread to Haiyi, the West spread to Shandi, Huining and Weizhi, and the scale spread to Caoyan." In Zizhitongjian, the first year of Qinglong, Emperor Ming of Wei Dynasty: "Shenghua suosui, Wanli Caoyan." According to the biography of PANI in the book of Jin, "learning is like cultivating seedlings and turning into Thinopyrum."
Chinese PinYin : cǎo yǎn fēng cóng
Follow the wind in the grass
