life is like an empty dream
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ú y ú nzh ā ol ù, which means that time is fleeting and life is short. It comes from the biography of Xiao Dahuan in the book of Zhou.
The origin of Idioms
According to the biography of Xiao Dahuan in the book of Zhou, "if life is like the clouds in the morning, it's better to wait for a long time, but I don't want to."
Idiom usage
It is a metaphor that time is fleeting and life is short.
life is like an empty dream
see what one has never seen before - jiàn suǒ wèi jiàn
live as a recluse scholar and behave eccentrically - suǒ yǐn xíng guài
be in harmony in appearanc but at variance in heart - mào hé xīn lí