the best and the brightest
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī sh í zh ī Xu ǎ n, which means the outstanding talents of a certain period. It comes from the biography of Wei Kang in the book of the new Tang Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The biography of Wei Kang in the book of the new Tang Dynasty: "all the examples it created, such as Wang Wei, Wang Jin, Cui Yin, etc., were selected by Yun for a time." In the preface to fan Kuan's memorials by Zeng Gong of Song Dynasty, it is said that "those who take speech as their duty, such as the public, are chosen at one time."
Idiom usage
As an object; as a written language; as an example Zhang Dezhi of Lantian County and Liu Congyi of Yexian County were both very cautious and intelligent. On the biography of Xunli in the history of Jin Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : yī shí zhī xuǎn
the best and the brightest
check erroneous ideas at the outset. fáng wēi dù jiàn
the continuation is only held by a silken thread. bù jué rú lǚ
The pen labors on the ideas of the mind.. xīn zhī bǐ gēng
exercise one's inventive mind. jiàng xīn dú yùn