bleak and desolate(tù kuí yàn mài)

bleak and desolate

Oatmeal is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ù Ku í y à nm à I, which means to describe the scene desolate. From "another visit to xuandu Temple".

The origin of Idioms

The preface of Liu Yuxi's "revisiting xuandu Temple" in Tang Dynasty: "revisiting xuandu, there are no more trees, only rabbits, sunflowers and oats are shaken by spring breeze."

Idiom usage

Rabbit, sunflower, oatmeal, to the setting sun, to be with others. Song Dynasty, Zhou Bangyan's poem "night flying magpie"

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: oatmeal rabbit sunflower

Chinese PinYin : tù kuí yàn mài