Red and rotten

Red and rotten

Red and rotten, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ó NGF à Gu à nxi à, to describe the amount of money and food. It comes from the biography of Jia Zhi in the book of Han Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Guan Suhong

Idiom usage

If there is no accumulation of red and rotten goods in the warehouse, and there is no courage for the soldiers to throw stones from a distance, they just turn back and turn back, or drum or strike, but eventually they can't get a clue. "With Liu Zicheng" by Zhu Xi in Song Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

In the book of Han Dynasty, the biography of Jia's donation: "the red millet in Taicang is rotten and can't be eaten, and the money in the capital is rotten and can't be eaten."