White grass and yellow clouds

White grass and yellow clouds

Bai Cao Huang Yun, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á IC ǎ Ohu á ngy ú n, which means to describe the desolation of the frontier in autumn. It comes from the poem "to the old general" written by Quan Deyu of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Quan Deyu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem to the veteran: "the white grass and yellow clouds were blocked in the autumn, and he once went out of Bingzhou with the Hussars."

Idiom usage

It's a desolate place. I'm looking for people who don't know where to go, but I'm in a sand moraine. Notes of Yuewei thatched cottage (continued record of luanyang, 5) by Ji Yun in Qing Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: Huang Yunbai grass