Fish sink and geese fall(yú chén yàn luò)

Fish sink and geese fall

Yu Chen Yan Luo is an idiom pronounced y ú ch é NY à NLU à, which describes a beautiful woman. It comes from Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun.

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It describes a beautiful woman.

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Zhuangzi's Qi Wu Lun says, "Mao Li Ji is the beauty of human beings, the depth of fish, the flying of birds, and the sudden decision of elk. Who knows the beauty of the world?" [allusion] in the spring and Autumn period, when the beautiful woman Xishi of Yue was washing gauze by the stream in her hometown, the fish swimming in the stream were so ashamed that they sank to the bottom of the water and did not dare to surface. Wang Zhaojun, a beautiful woman of the Han and Yuan Dynasties, was surprised by her beauty when she went out to marry the Hun king. She forgot to fly and fell into the woods.

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It can not be read as "Y ú ch é NY à NL à" 2. It should not be written as "fish sink and Eagle fall." Tang Xianzu's Handan East tour in the Ming Dynasty: "it's wonderful to say something like the foot of the flower hall, but it's also like the fish sinking and the wild geese falling when Lingge starts." 2. Later, I transferred my job. From then on, I lost my voice.

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