tattered scales -- disastrous defeat in battle

tattered scales -- disastrous defeat in battle

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à IL í NC á NJI à, which means to refer to snowflakes flying in the air. It comes from the Song Dynasty Zhang Yuan's Ode to snow.

Idiom usage

The battle retreats the Jade Dragon by three million, and the broken scales and armor are flying in the air.

The origin of Idioms

The former collection of yuyinconghua in Tiaoxi, miscellaneous records of the Song Dynasty (Part 1), quoted the Song Dynasty Zhang Yuan's yongxue in Xiqing Shihua: "three million Yulong were retreated in the war, and their scales and armor were flying in the air."