The old swallow returns home
The old swallow returns to its nest, a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ji ù y à NGU ī ch á o, which means that the former swallow flies back to its nest. It refers to a traveler who lives outside and likes to return to his hometown. From the Ming Dynasty Gu Dadian "Qingshan Ji Pei Xing Guiheng".
The origin of Idioms
"It's like the old swallow returning to its nest, in front of the eaves."
Idiom usage
As an object, attribute, etc
Chinese PinYin : jiù yàn guī cháo
The old swallow returns home
All trees and grass are rotten. cǎo mù jù xiǔ
Discard the writing and preserve the quality. qì wén cún zhì
with not a single ingle detail left out. xiān xī wú yí