Breaking wood and digging earth
Broken wood digging, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à nm à Ju é D à, which means that in ancient times, broken wood was a pestle and digging was a mortar. It comes from the book of changes.
The origin of Idioms
I. Xici II. Huang Tingjian of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "after the king Huangzhou inks": "digging and breaking wood, wisdom is not as good as spring."
Idiom usage
Example in Kong Rong's treatise on corporal punishment, it is said that the craftsmanship of a wise man is better than that of a sage, and the skill of a water hammer is better than that of digging up the ground. Wang Yinglin, Song Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : duàn mù jué dì
Breaking wood and digging earth
like gathering of birds and fishes. niǎo jí lín cuì
possible period of want or need. bù shí zhī xū
Wonderful dance and pure song. miào wǔ qīng gē
be guilty of the most heinous crimes. zuì è tāo tiān