folly of trying to see the sky with a basin over one 's head

folly of trying to see the sky with a basin over one 's head

Dai penwangtian, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin D is à IP é NW à ngTi à n, which means to look at the sky with a basin on your head. It means that the act is opposite to the purpose, and the wish cannot be achieved. From the book of Ren Shaoqing.

The origin of Idioms

Sima Qian's letter to Ren Shaoqing in the Han Dynasty: the servant thought that Dai pen could look up to the sky, so he lost the knowledge of his guests and lost his family. Day and night, he thought about exhausting his unworthy talent and devoted himself to his duty to woo his relatives.

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive. Example the fifth lunzhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: it is better to serve the country than to treat the scholars with hardship, and do not do things twice. In Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's poem "Shucheng was called to try not to go to my book": it's difficult to wear a basin and look up at the sky at the same time, but it's also a shame to laugh at yourself and have a false name. Wang Fu's on the hidden man in Han Dynasty. Tang · Lu Zhaolin's "five sorrows · sorrowful life": he Yifu looks at the sky with his pen and leans on his stick day by day.