Knock on ice and jade scraps
Knock on ice and jade scraps, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ā ob ī ngy ù Xi è, meaning exquisite paper. It comes from Yuan Dynasty's Liu Xun's general discussion on seclusion poetry.
Idiom explanation
Fine paper.
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; of paper
The origin of Idioms
Liu Xun of the Yuan Dynasty wrote in his poems on living in seclusion: "in the next three years, Xiao Yongyan was drunk when he died. When he saw Yu Ju, he was eager to ask for the paper, but he did not want to knock on the ice and jade scraps in case of bad words."
Chinese PinYin : qiāo bīng yù xiè
Knock on ice and jade scraps
fear wolves ahead and tigers behind. qián pà láng,hòu pà hǔ