bits and pieces

bits and pieces

East scales and West claws, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ō NGL í nx ī zh ǎ o, which means to refer to fragmentary things. It comes from the end of the collection of knowing a great order.

Idiom explanation

It originally means that the body of a dragon is covered by clouds when drawing a dragon, but a dragon scale is painted in the East, and a dragon claw is exposed in the west, and the whole body of the dragon is not seen. It's a metaphor for fragmentary things.

The origin of Idioms

Gong Zizhen in the Qing Dynasty wrote in his book the end of a Daling collection: "the clouds in the East are like scales, and the clouds in the West are like claws, so that the later generations can seek them all or none."

Idioms and allusions

One of the sources of the allusion: Chapter 8 of Jin Shengtan's criticism of the water margin in Qing Dynasty: "if you doubt it, you will not say it; if you doubt it, you will say it suddenly. For example, the dragon in the sky, the scales in the East cloud, and the claws in the West Cloud, are extremely strange and unrestrained Explanation: (the reader) doubting that the author will certainly write, the author suddenly does not write; doubting that the author will no longer write, the author suddenly writes again. (Shi Naian's writing style) it's like a dragon flying in the air. There's a scale in the East cloud and a claw in the West Cloud. It's amazing. It's so arbitrary! The original meaning is fragmentary things, extended to make people difficult to see the whole picture, unexpected. The second source of the allusion: in Qing Dynasty, Gong Zizhen's the end of the collection of knowing a certain Daling: "the East cloud has a scale, and the West cloud has a claw, so that the later generations can seek it, and all of them are or are not. Explanation: it originally means that when drawing a dragon, the dragon's body is covered by clouds, but a dragon scale is painted in the East, and a dragon claw is exposed in the west, and the whole body of the dragon is not seen. " It's a metaphor for fragmentary things.

Discrimination of words

Synonyms: one scale and half claws, lack of head and tail, fragmented Antonyms: integrated, all inclusive

Grammatical usage

It is used as attribute and adverbial; it is used as a metaphor for fragmentary things