Cooking sand and carving ice(chuī shā lòu bīng)

Cooking sand and carving ice

Chu ī sh ā L ò UB ī ng is a Chinese idiom. It means that cooking sand can't make rice and carving ice can't make utensils. It is a metaphor of futility.

Idiom explanation

Cooking sand can't make rice, carving ice can't make utensils. The metaphor is futile.

The origin of Idioms

The first volume of "miscellaneous notes of cloud Valley" written by Zhang Zhen of Song Dynasty: "if you make up bad bamboo slips, you will suffer from it. What's the beginning of cooking sand and carving ice?"

Chinese PinYin : chuī shā lòu bīng