sth. seldom seen or hardly possible(tiě shù kāi huā)

sth. seldom seen or hardly possible

Tie Shuhua, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti ě sh ù K ā Ihu ā, which means that things are very rare or very difficult to achieve. It's from the mirror of the scholar's Academy.

Analysis of Idioms

It's easy to find a needle in a haystack

The origin of Idioms

Wang Ji of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the mirror of the scholar's Academy: "there is a common saying between Wu and Zhejiang that if you see that things are difficult to achieve, you must have iron trees and flowers."

Idiom usage

It is difficult to do things. The iron tree is about to blossom when the army crosses Jinsha against Japan. Chen Yi's "Gannan guerrilla Ci" and "Ya Su Ji Yan. Vol. 39. Plants. Tieshu" said: "in Wu and Yue dynasties, it is said that it is difficult to do things, and it must be said that Tieshu blossoms. I don't know that there is such a thing in the world, but when it comes to flowers in maonian, it is hard to see it in sixty years. 』」

Chinese PinYin : tiě shù kāi huā