Cold cicadas and stiff birds
Cold cicadas and stiff birds, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h á NCH á NJI ā ngni ǎ o, meaning cicadas and frozen birds in cold weather. It's a metaphor for a silent person. It's from shenluanjiao Xingui.
Idiom usage
He has now become a dead bird.
The origin of Idioms
Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the book "shenluanjiao · Xingui": "when friends travel together, how can they be so cold and silent?"
Chinese PinYin : hán chán jiāng niǎo
Cold cicadas and stiff birds
bamboo shoots after a spring rain. yǔ hòu chūn sǔn
as vast as the boundless heavens. hào tiān wǎng jí
possible period of want or need. bù shí zhī xū
spare neither labor nor money. bù xī gōng běn
combine indigenous and foreign methods. tǔ yáng jié hé