Broken rain and broken clouds

Broken rain and broken clouds

Duanyu Canyun, a Chinese idiom, is Pinyin Du à NY à C á NY ú n. It means to interrupt an ongoing event. It means that the love between men and women can't last. It comes from the West Tower by Liu Kezhuang in Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Kezhuang's poem "the West Tower" in Song Dynasty: "the short pine and the bright moon are easy to trace, the broken rain and the broken clouds are hard to trace."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing. When the curtain closes the heavy door again, it can't bear to leave hate and send ice strings. Xu Lin, Ming Dynasty