The crane is long and the duck is short
He Changfu short, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h è ch á NGF ú Du ǎ n, metaphor things have their own characteristics. It comes from Zhuangzi's parallel thumb.
The origin of Idioms
Chuang Tzu's parallel thumb: "although the Fu's shin is short, it will be sad if it is continued; while the crane's shin is long, it will be sad if it is broken."
Idiom usage
In Zhou Zizhi's the fisherman's pride of the Song Dynasty, the words: "when you meet a ridge, you will be able to share with the flow, and the gain and loss of the chicken and the insect will be as much as possible. Can a smile, crane Long Fu short from his way Lu Zhian's suite of jixianbin · sighing for the world in Yuan Dynasty: "he Changfu can't be the same. In the end, I don't know who is who." Jin and Yuan Dynasties like to ask the poem "Shi Huaizu": "dogs steal and chickens crow, but how about crane, long Fu and short fruit?"
The crane is long and the duck is short
harm the country and bring calamities on the people - dù guó yāng mín
a large head and big ears -- sign of a prosperous man - féi tóu dà ěr