Cold cicadas and stiff birds

Cold cicadas and stiff birds

Cold cicadas and stiff birds, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h á NCH á NJI ā ngni ǎ o, meaning cicadas and frozen birds in cold weather. It's a metaphor for a silent person. It's from shenluanjiao Xingui.

Idiom usage

He has now become a dead bird.

The origin of Idioms

Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the book "shenluanjiao · Xingui": "when friends travel together, how can they be so cold and silent?"