Cut the moon and carve out the clouds

Cut the moon and carve out the clouds

The Chinese idiom, C á iyu è L ò uy ú n, means to cut the moon and carve clouds. It refers to the rhetoric embellishment in poetry and the new skill of scenery description. It comes from preface to selected poems of Qi Li by Wang Wan of Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Wan of Qing Dynasty wrote the preface to the selected poems of Qi Li: "cutting the moon and carving out the clouds is not enough and the words are new.

Idiom usage

It is a combination; it is used as predicate, attribute and object; it is used to describe the ingenious and beautiful poetry; it is warm and tender, sentimental, and correct; it is impassioned, and it is changeable. Xue Xue's yipiao Shihua in Qing Dynasty (Volume 42)

Analysis of Idioms

Close synonym: cloud carving and moon cutting