the stars and moon vie with each other in brightness
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī ngyu è Ji ā Ohu ī, refers to the stars and the moon shining together, especially bright. It comes from Song Ouyang Xiu's Ode to autumn sound.
The origin of Idioms
Ouyang Xiu's Ode to the sound of autumn in Song Dynasty: "the stars and the moon are bright, and the river is in the sky."
Idiom usage
Examples
On the night of March 14, the wind was clear and the air was cool. The 90th chapter of the romance of awakening the world
Chinese PinYin : xīng yuè jiāo huī
the stars and moon vie with each other in brightness
impose upon those who are kind and fear those who are severe. qī shàn pà è
do good but regard as ill will. wéi hǎo chéng qiàn
things of the present are right and those of the past are wrong. jīn shì zuó fēi