The river is clear and the sea is exhausted

The river is clear and the sea is exhausted

He Qing Hai Jie, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h é Q ī NGH ǎ Iji é, which means to describe rare things. From miscellaneous records of Xijing.

The origin of Idioms

The fourth volume of miscellaneous records of Xijing quoted from Liu Fu by Mei Cheng of Han Dynasty: "little minister, don't do anything to Hongmao. Although the river is clear and the sea is exhausted, there is no scenery in the end. "

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.