breathe like a lily(chuī qì rú lán)

breathe like a lily

It's a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Chu ī Q ì R ú L á n, which means it smells like orchids. It is used to describe the breath of a beautiful woman. It is also used to describe the gorgeous words. It comes from the preface to tingyanxiaolu, a scholar of Runxiang.

Analysis of Idioms

Blowing Qi wins orchid

The origin of Idioms

"Chen Jia's Ci is like a pair of clouds, and his fragrance is like a orchid." Later, "blowing like orchid" was used to describe the fragrance of beauty. Also describes the rhetoric gorgeous, has the charm.

Idiom usage

Used as predicate, attribute, diction, etc. Peng Xianmen's amazing talent is the only one of his own. Wang Ruan Ting said that he was always ashamed of his father when he was ten years old. ——Wang Ho's "modern world talk · envy" in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : chuī qì rú lán