burn famous string instrument for fuel and cook crane for meat -- offense against culture(fén qín yù hè)

burn famous string instrument for fuel and cook crane for meat -- offense against culture

As a Chinese idiom, it refers to the spoiling of beautiful things. It comes from Zhou Yi's Huifeng Cihua (Volume 2): "burning Qin and crane, which is done by my father, should not be changed."

Idiom explanation

The sound f é NQ í NY ù h è is similar to the meaning of burning Qin and boiling crane. It's a metaphor for spoiling beautiful things.

Idioms and allusions

It's from Kuang Zhouyi's Huifeng Cihua (Volume 2), "burning the lute and the crane is what my father did, and I don't want to change it."

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: fqyh [synonym]: burn the piano and cook the crane [usage]: as predicate, attribute and object; metaphor spoils beautiful things common degree: General emotional color: derogatory word idiom structure: combination generation time: Modern

Chinese PinYin : fén qín yù hè