Huang Zhongwa cauldron

Huang Zhongwa cauldron

Huang Zhongwa cauldron, a Chinese idiom, is pronounced Hu á ngzh ō NGW ǎ f ǔ, which means to compare the elegant and excellent or vulgar and inferior; the virtuous and the vulgar. It comes from Chu Ci · Bu Ju.

Idiom explanation

Earthen cauldron: a large earthen pot used as an instrument with the lowest pitch.

The origin of Idioms

In Chu Ci · Bu Ju written by Qu Yuan in the Warring States period, it is said that "the world is turbid but not clear, cicada wings are more important, and Qianjun is less important; Huang Zhong destroys and abandons, and the ruins are full of thunder; slanders are highly publicized, and sages are nameless."