precious spring rain

precious spring rain

Spring rain is like oil, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ū NY ǔ R ú y ó U. From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's biography of lanterns in Jingde, Volume 1: "a drop of spring rain is as slippery as oil."

Idiom usage

This is a metaphor for the scarcity of rain in spring. "Spring rain is as expensive as oil," says Xie Jin of Ming Dynasty: "it's raining all over the street. It's slipping and killing a group of cattle."