Hunting in the East and fishing in the West(dōng liè xī yú)
Hunting in the East and fishing in the West
Hunting in the East and fishing in the west, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ō ngli è x ī y ú, which means to dabble in everything but not specialize. It comes from "scolding the boy".
The origin of Idioms
Sun Qiao of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his book "scolding Tong Zhi": "it is more than enough to study, to hunt in the East and to fish in the west, and to know the beginning and the end roughly."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or object; used in dealing with affairs
Chinese PinYin : dōng liè xī yú
Hunting in the East and fishing in the West
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