Bury jade in incense
Bury jade and bury incense, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ì y ù m á IXI ā ng, meaning the death of a beautiful woman. From the preface to yingti.
The origin of Idioms
Wu Wenying's preface to yingti in the Southern Song Dynasty said, "farewell to the empress, no letter from Liuqiao, going to Huawei, burying jade and burying incense, several storms."
Analysis of Idioms
A synonym for burying incense and jade
Idiom usage
The death of a beautiful woman. In the song of Chen Shi, a disciple of Guo Fangqing, an old prostitute in Jiaofang, written by Gao Qi of Ming Dynasty: "how many years have you been buried in jade and buried in incense?"
Chinese PinYin : yì yù mái xiāng
Bury jade in incense
take what our forebears have left us but as a departure for new inventions. chéng qián qǐ hòu
to compose poems while holding the lance horizontally in the saddle. héng shuò fù shī
The East is not bright, the west is bright. dōng fāng bù liàng xī fāng liàng
the three things to use in reading a book -- the eye , the mouth , and the mind. dú shū sān dào