burn famous string instrument for fuel and cook crane for meat -- offense against culture(shāo qín zhǔ hè)

burn famous string instrument for fuel and cook crane for meat -- offense against culture

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f é NQ í nzh ǔ h è, which means burning Qin to cook white crane. It's a metaphor for spoiling beautiful things at will. It comes from the former collection of Tiaoxi yuyincong by Hu Zai of Song Dynasty, and quoted from Xiqing Shihua.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Hu Zai's collection of Tiaoxi yuyincong Zhuan quoted from Xiqing Poetry Talks: "Yishan's zazuan has ten items and covers them with funny articles. One of them is killing scenery. It is called "washing feet with clear spring, sunning flowers, building from the back of the mountain, burning Qin and boiling crane, sipping tea to flowers and drinking from Panasonic."

Idiom usage

[example 1] Volume 3 of Xing Shi Heng Yan written by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty: "I have always cherished jade and cherished fragrance." Huang Jingren of Qing Dynasty wrote in the chapter of vexed flowers: "don't worry about people's satirizing the scenery, rather follow the same direction." [example 2] no emotion, no emotion. (Chapter 18 of the water margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty); [example 3] there is nothing wrong with tourism and building hotels; however, vegetation, water sources and wild cultural relics must not be destroyed at will.

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym for "despicable things"

Chinese PinYin : shāo qín zhǔ hè