be cynical

be cynical

See through the world, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k à NP à h ó ngch é n, which means to see through the secular happiness, desire. From Xidu Fu.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu's Ode to Xidu in the Han Dynasty: "the city of Khotan overflows the country, and there are hundreds of stores beside it. The world of mortals is connected by smoke and clouds."

Idiom usage

Liu Yuxi's poem "the eleventh year of Yuanhe opera as a gift to the flower watching kings" in Tang Dynasty: "the red world of Zimo is coming, and no one can't help looking at the flowers." In the first chapter of a dream of Red Mansions, "it turns out that it is a hard stone that has no talent to mend the sky and illusory shape to enter the world. It is carried into the world by the vast great men and the illusory real people and led to the other shore." Chapter 40 of Jing Hua Yuan: "on the next day, you don't ask me, but you go alone. Don't you see through the world and open your name quickly?" The preface of the first part of Liu Qing's history of Entrepreneurship: "an old man who has seen through the world requires that the whole family should not suffer."