A tired bird knows how to return(juàn niǎo zhī huán)

A tired bird knows how to return

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ju à NNI à ozh à Hu á n, which means that the tired bird knows to fly back to its nest; it refers to retiring in the countryside after resigning from office; it also refers to returning home from a place of residence. It's from the poem of returning home.

The origin of Idioms

Tao Qian, Jin Dynasty, wrote in his poem of returning home: "the cloud has no intention to come out of the hill, but the bird is tired of flying and knows how to return."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences. example the tired bird knows how to return, the clouds are far away at night, and the mountain air is like dusk. This is also true meaning, so we should want to distinguish and forget words. In Song Dynasty, ye mengde's poem "niannujiao, going back to the south, crossing the Yangtze River, using Yuanming language" won by Ren Yu in Yuan Dynasty_ I hope spring will come: Ren Zhuo Fu is dazzled for a while, and Qingkuang opens his face every day. Why worry, painting a tiger without success, tired birds know.

Chinese PinYin : juàn niǎo zhī huán