A broken wall

A broken wall

Duanbi canzhang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à Nb à C á nzh à ng, which means that although incomplete, it is still a very precious thing. It comes from Li maojia's sending tea by Sun Xun of Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

"Manzhen was sent to the exiled immortal's home, and the broken wall was wrapped in purple gauze," said Sun Xun of Song Dynasty

Idiom explanation

Wall: round and flat jade with a hole in the middle; Zhang: jade like half a GUI. Incomplete Zhangbi. Metaphor, though incomplete, is still a precious thing.