a hopeless task(zhēng shā wéi fàn)
Time: 2022-01-31 09:16:38 Author: ChinaWiki.net
a hopeless task
Steaming sand for rice, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ē ngsh ā w é if à n, which means steaming sand into rice, which means things can't be successful. From Jin Jian Ji.
The origin of Idioms
The 19th edition of Jin Jian Ji written by Zhou Lvjing of Ming Dynasty: "purity is Bodhi, love and dye are hard to leave, steaming sand is the end of the meal, and repentance is the end of the day."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.
Chinese PinYin : zhēng shā wéi fàn
a hopeless task
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