graceful but not showy(fēng liú xiāo sǎ)

graceful but not showy

Elegant, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē ngli ú Xi ā OS ǎ, which means handsome, talented and detached. From the story of the red pear, touyong.

The origin of Idioms

Xu fuzuo of Ming Dynasty wrote in the story of red pears: Su Niang is as elegant as you are. She is as beautiful as a flower. She has a few intimate feelings in the wind and dust

Idiom usage

"The voice of white snow · Jade Dragonfly · prosecution" says: "look at you, you are still in the romantic, only fall, a pretty face." The fourteenth chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "he was born with both talent and appearance, elegant and unrestrained, and was not bound by the official and vulgar national system." Chapter 7 of Zhang Nanzhuang's "he Dian" in Qing Dynasty: smelly flower Niang, seeing that he was as beautiful and elegant as jade, loved him very much and wanted him to go to the gate. Ba Jin's the thirteenth letter of Lina: "he is not a romantic person at all. No girl will love him

Chinese PinYin : fēng liú xiāo sǎ