Beat the bull to the drum
Duniu guhuang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du ì Ni ú g ǔ Hu á ng, which means to reason with people who don't understand things. It often means to be futile or to satirize each other's stupidity. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate, object, attribute; used to satirize
Analysis of Idioms
Play the piano to the ox
The origin of Idioms
In Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun, "it's not clear, so it ends in a clear ignorance." Jin Guoxiang's note: "it's just like listening to a bull's ear, but it's not clear, so it's not clear at last."
Idiom explanation
It refers to reasoning or saying things to people who don't understand things. It often contains the meaning of futility or satirizing the other party's stupidity. It is the same as "casting pearls before swine".
Chinese PinYin : duì niú gǔ huáng
Beat the bull to the drum
the whole town turns out to. wàn rén kōng xiàng
stand in the snow to wait upon master cheng respectfully. chéng mén lì xuě
bring disaster to the fish in the moat. yāng jí chí yú