Changing column and stretching string
Changing Qin Zhu is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is g ǎ izh ù zh ā ngxi á n, which means another Qin string. It refers to reforming the system or changing the method. It's from the story of the Golden Lotus · shece.
The origin of Idioms
Chen Ruyuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "the story of the Golden Lotus · shece" that "Yu Bi Shuqi hugs and sees Suo Wei crying and starving, but he changes the column and opens the string, and only then he can visit Tao."
Idiom usage
Used as predicate, object, attribute, etc
Changing column and stretching string
may your family grow and prosper like spreading melonvines - mián mián guā dié
remain calm and composed while handling pressing affairs - hào zhěng yǐ xiá
Keep the army for thousands of days - yǎng jūn qiān rì,yòng zài yī shí
broadening one 's intellectual horizon and keeping within the bounds of propriety - bó wén yuè lǐ