Ascending mountains to pick pearls
Ascending mountains to pick pearls
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ē ngsh ā NC ǎ izh ū, which means to go to the mountain to pick pearls; it refers to the wrong direction and method of doing things, which will not achieve the purpose. It comes from the biography of Liu Xuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the biography of Liu Xuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty, it is said that "Xing Hua and Zhi Li are like seeking fish from trees and picking pearls from mountains."
Idiom usage
The way of doing things is not right.
Ascending mountains to pick pearls
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