Winter fan and summer stove(dōng shàn xià lú)

Winter fan and summer stove

Winter fan and summer stove, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à ngsh à nxi à L ú, meaning useless things. It comes from Lun Heng Feng Yu by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In Lun Heng Feng Yu, Wang Chong of Han Dynasty, it is said that "if you can do something that is not beneficial, you can accept the saying that it is not helpful. If you can bring it into the furnace in summer and play a fan in winter, you can do something you don't want to get. If you can offer something you don't want to hear, you won't be lucky. How can you be lucky?"

Idiom usage

He often does stupid things like a fan in winter and a stove in summer

Chinese PinYin : dōng shàn xià lú