heat intense enough to melt stone and metals(liú jīn shuò shí)

heat intense enough to melt stone and metals

Liujinshuoshi, a Chinese idiom, is Li ú J ī nshu ò sh í in pinyin, which means that it is so hot that it seems that gold and stone are melting. It comes from the songs of Chu, evocation.

Notes on Idioms

Melt, flow: melt.

The origin of Idioms

"Evocation of the soul" in the songs of Chu: "in ten days, the gold will flow and the stone will grow."

Idiom usage

The weather is very hot. Example: Huainanzi Quan Yan Xun: "great heat makes stone flow gold, fire is beneficial to its strong." season and month are full of heat, flowing gold and stone, gathering mosquitoes to form snow, and sealing foxes for thousands of miles. In the biography of Liang Wudi's sons in southern history, Wang Yi noted: "the wood of Fusang in the East can be sold. It is said that the wood of Fusang in the East can be sold after ten days. The heat is intense and the stone is strong." "The emperor's Prince's CI for the Emperor:" although the gold and stone flow, Tang demiguang, Huaishan Xiangling, Yao wind Yifan (DU Guangting of the former Shu Dynasty) the poem "the journey is difficult" reads: "pedestrians may travel in Yanxiang, flowing with gold and stones, sweating with clothes." It is also called "LiuShuo". (Chen Menglei of the Qing Dynasty), "preface to the collection of the Privy Council of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty": "therefore, the great man Shuo de and Hong Yangao's comments before and after Liu Shuo depended on the articles they contained." (song Ouyang Xiu)

Chinese PinYin : liú jīn shuò shí