anything that vanishes in a flash

anything that vanishes in a flash

Lightning, stone and fire, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is di à NGU à ngsh í Hu à, which means the light of lightning and the fire of flint. Originally used as a Buddhist language, it refers to things vanishing in a flash. Now it mostly describes things vanishing in a flash like lightning and stone fire. From the five Lantern Festival.

The origin of Idioms

Shi Puji of the Song Dynasty wrote in his five Lantern Festival: "this matter is like a stone fire, like a flash of lightning."

Idiom usage

Combined idioms; used as objects and attributives; used in figurative sentences. "Yesterday's baby, today's boss, a hundred years of lightning and stone fire." Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty, answering Zhang Qinfu's book, the so-called news of stone fire and lightning in Zen School, Volume I of Xin Di Guan Jing, is like dream and bubble, as well as morning dew and lightning the Tang Dynasty Dunhuang Bianwen "impermanence Sutra" says: "life, such as lightning, how can you live for a long time." In the second and third chapters of the story of heroes and Heroines: "even if we stay together for a hundred years, it's just lightning. "But I haven't seen it clearly yet, and it's gone like lightning. Guo Moruo's the plum blossom in Gushan