Duck leg and crane knee

Duck leg and crane knee

Fu Ti He Xi, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ú J ì NGH è x ī, meaning that things have their own length. It comes from Zhuangzi's parallel thumb written by Zhuang Zhou.

The origin of Idioms

Zhuang Zhou's "Zhuangzi parallel thumb" said: "although the Fu shin is short, it will be sad if it is continued; although the crane shin is long, it will be sad if it is broken."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute, it refers to things that have their own merits and demerits.

Examples

In Qing Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's guanxia biography of imperial city pattern: "in the year of Guanqing, there was also a mockery of Fu Tibi and He Xi."