The crane is long and the duck is short(hè cháng fú duǎn)

The crane is long and the duck is short

He Changfu short, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h è ch á NGF ú Du ǎ n, metaphor things have their own characteristics. It comes from Zhuangzi's parallel thumb.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu's parallel thumb: "although the Fu's shin is short, it will be sad if it is continued; while the crane's shin is long, it will be sad if it is broken."

Idiom usage

In Zhou Zizhi's the fisherman's pride of the Song Dynasty, the words: "when you meet a ridge, you will be able to share with the flow, and the gain and loss of the chicken and the insect will be as much as possible. Can a smile, crane Long Fu short from his way Lu Zhian's suite of jixianbin · sighing for the world in Yuan Dynasty: "he Changfu can't be the same. In the end, I don't know who is who." Jin and Yuan Dynasties like to ask the poem "Shi Huaizu": "dogs steal and chickens crow, but how about crane, long Fu and short fruit?"

Chinese PinYin : hè cháng fú duǎn