plough the air(yuán hóu qǔ yuè)

plough the air

The Chinese idiom, Yu á NH ó UQ ǔ Yu è, refers to ignorance. It's a waste of effort. From Qinyuan spring.

Idiom usage

It's a waste of effort. example the story of the monkey and the ape fetching the moon is funny and even more thought-provoking.

The origin of Idioms

Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's "Qinyuanchun" CI: "pick flowers in the mirror, catch the moon in the water, look at the can't help but get close to Yi."

Idiom story

It is said that there were five hundred macaques in ancient boronai city. One day, five hundred macaques marched in the forest and saw the reflection of the moon in the well under the tree. The monkey king said to all the macaques, "today, the moon falls into the well. We all have to find a way to get it out and hang it in the sky." So these monkeys in the tree one by one to extend into the well, the result of branch fracture, all fell into the well.

Chinese PinYin : yuán hóu qǔ yuè