Carving heart and kidney

Carving heart and kidney

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is di ā ox ī NK è sh è n, which means the deliberate tempering of writing. The same as "carving liver and kidney". From shisou, six dynasties.

The origin of Idioms

Hu Yinglin of the Ming Dynasty wrote in shisou · Six Dynasties: "the great cause of poetry and prose is immortal, and scholars carve their heart and kidney. They are afraid to see the mysteries of Buddhism when they are poor in the day and night."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: carving liver and kidney

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; used in writing