Holding the jade and cherishing the jade(wò yú huái yù)

Holding the jade and cherishing the jade

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is w ò y ú Hu á iy ù, which means rich in literary talent. It comes from the biography of Liu Qiu in southern history.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Liu Qiu in the southern history, it is said that "people who hold jade and cherish jade know to retreat when they look at Zheng Bang; people who walk on Zhang Fucui's shoes sigh when they look at Min township."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: the star of the passage

Idiom usage

Examples

A lot of people think they are holding jade, but they know nothing about Chinese traditional culture.

Chinese PinYin : wò yú huái yù