The dust is covered with rice(chén gēng tú fàn)

The dust is covered with rice

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch é ng à NGT ú f à n, which means children's games. It's a metaphor for something that's useless. It comes from the book of answering Tang Xun Xun Xun.

The origin of Idioms

According to Qian Qianyi's treatise on answering Tang's admonitions in the Qing Dynasty, "the folklore after the Southern Song Dynasty is like a piece of dust. Those who know a little about the taste can spit and abandon it."

Discrimination of words

Apply: mud. Soup made of dust, rice made of mud. Refers to children's games. It's a metaphor for something that's useless. [synonym]: dust and rice

Idiom usage

To be the subject or object; to refer to something that is taken as real

Chinese PinYin : chén gēng tú fàn