Breaking wood and digging earth
Breaking wood and digging earth
Broken wood digging, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à nm à Ju é D à, which means that in ancient times, broken wood was a pestle and digging was a mortar. It comes from the book of changes.
The origin of Idioms
I. Xici II. Huang Tingjian of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "after the king Huangzhou inks": "digging and breaking wood, wisdom is not as good as spring."
Idiom usage
Example in Kong Rong's treatise on corporal punishment, it is said that the craftsmanship of a wise man is better than that of a sage, and the skill of a water hammer is better than that of digging up the ground. Wang Yinglin, Song Dynasty
Breaking wood and digging earth
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