Eating pines and drinking streams

Eating pines and drinking streams

Eating pines and drinking streams is a Chinese idiom, pronounced C à ns à ngy à NJI à n, which means eating pines and drinking streams. Living in seclusion.

Idiom explanation

Eat pines, drink streams. Living in seclusion.

Idioms and allusions

Liang Shen Yue's SHANGUAN stele in the Southern Dynasty said, "it is not easy to set up a ambition when a person goes alone. It is difficult to make sense of his feelings when he eats pines and drinks streams."

Word usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object; used in seclusion