Three boxes in Hedong

Three boxes in Hedong

Hedong Sanxiang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h é D ō ngs ā nqi è, meaning lost books. It comes from the book of the Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of Han, the biography of Zhang an: "when you go up to the east of the river and taste the three cases of dead books, you can't know them when you ask them. You can only know them when you know them. After the purchase of the book, to phase school nothing lost

Idiom usage

As an object; of books, etc.

Examples

And Zicheng, fruit big line in the time, treasure love, than jiguangpianyu, do not want to get the river east three cases, to see its all Yan. Preface to selected poems of Tang Dynasty