Carving the wind and carving the moon

Carving the wind and carving the moon

Diao Feng Diao Yue, a Chinese idiom, pronounced di ā of ē NGL ò uyu è in pinyin, means deliberately reciting the wind and the moon. It comes from the poem quotation of Meiling Mountain Residence.

Idiom explanation

Deliberately recite the wind and the moon.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Huangyan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the poem of Meiling Mountain Residence: "it is to make poets carve the wind and carve the moon and always pick flowers. Shizi said that chengshenzong is nothing but dream grass."

Discrimination of words

Synonyms: chanting the wind and the moon; degree of common use: secularity; emotional color: commendatory words; idiom structure: combination

Idiom usage

As a predicate or object; used of literati, etc