one is very capable , while the other is extremely incompetent(yī lóng yī zhū)

one is very capable , while the other is extremely incompetent

A dragon and a pig, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī L ó ngy ī zh ū, which means one is a dragon and the other is a pig; it refers to two people at the same time, which has a great distinction between the superior and the inferior. From the south of Fu Shu Shu Cheng.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Hanyu's Fu Shu Shu Cheng Nan poem: "two families have their own children, and their children are just like each other. Young and long get together to play, not the same team of fish. Thirty bones make a pig. "

Idiom usage

There is a big gap between them. There are two children in his family. The elder brother is very good, but the younger brother is very stupid. It's a real version of a dragon and a pig~

Idiom story

Story 1: Han Yu's Fu reading city south, Han Yu has a son named Han Fu, who didn't like reading when he was young! So Han Yu wrote a poem to encourage his son: "each family has its own son, and it's just like raising a child.". It's not like a fish in the same team. thirty skeletons make one dragon and one pig. Story 2: Han Yu, a writer of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem to his son Han Fu, encouraging him to study hard. In the poem, he wrote: there are two families each having a son who looks very similar. They often play together. When they are about 12 years old, they gradually find that they are different. When they are 30 years old, one is like a dragon who calls the wind and rain, while the other is like a pig who is stupid and incompetent. Later Han Yu asked Han Fu, "do you want to be a dragon or a pig?" After listening, Han Fu studied hard and became a useful person.

Chinese PinYin : yī lóng yī zhū