the wells are dry and the fences are dilapidated

the wells are dry and the fences are dilapidated

Duanjing decaying yuan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à NJ à ngtu í Yu á n, which means broken well fence and collapsed short wall. Describe the scene of a dilapidated courtyard. It comes from the Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu of Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty, the tenth: "it was so colorful that it seemed that it was ruined."

Idiom usage

It is a desolate and uninhabited scene. [example] However, how could it be scattered in such a field! Liang Qichao's diaogu of new Rome in Qing Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym ruins antonym prosperity