Burning a prairie fire

Burning a prairie fire

As a Chinese idiom, CH á of é NYU á NLI á o in pinyin refers to Jiyan's tragic war. From selected works Zuo Si's Wei Du Fu.

The origin of Idioms

In the selected works Zuo Si's Wei Du Fu, it is said that "when the traitors return to Nei Li, they have wings in the capital's chambers, they have eyes on the emperor's house, and their nests burn on the prairie fire and turn into simmering embers, so the thorns travel to the court."

Idiom usage

To describe war, etc. From the north of the British emperor, Hetao was destroyed, the nest was burning, and the elk was a ruin. ——On Dingding by Hou Fangyu in Qing Dynasty