meaning grasped imageries forgotten
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d é y à w à ngxi à ng, meaning to take its spirit and ignore its form. It comes from the Tang Dynasty Liang Su's Zhi Guan Tong Yi.
The origin of Idioms
Liang Su of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his Zhiguan Tongyi: "if you are not smart and profound, you will forget your image. Who can know?"
Idiom usage
In the past, people were deeper than painters, and the position of their self forgetting pictographs could not be observed frequently. Song · Huang Bosi's Dong Guan Yu Lun · travel pictures of Tang people collected by bateng Ziji
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym get carried away
meaning grasped imageries forgotten
one keeps his pearl in the bosom and the country goes to ruin - huái bǎo mí bāng
the time hangs heavy on one 's hands - bǎi wú liáo lài
The heart cannot be used for two purposes - xīn bù liǎng yòng
The accumulated soil is the mountain, and the accumulated water is the sea - jī shuǐ wéi shān,jī shuǐ wéi hǎi
fallen leaves return to the roots -- to revert to one 's origin - luò yè guī gēn