Looking on by Ping Shi(píng shì páng guān)

Looking on by Ping Shi

Ping Shi is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p í ngsh ì P á nggu ā n, which means to stand by on the beam in front of the car and to stay away. It comes from Wang Tao's "it's not enough to rely on Turkey's victory over Russia" in Qing Dynasty.

Idioms and allusions

[source] Wang Tao of the Qing Dynasty wrote that "since then, the natives thought that Russia was not enough for war, and all the countries watched by relying on Shi."

Discrimination of words

Grammatical usage: used as predicate and attribute; used in writing

Chinese PinYin : píng shì páng guān