precious

precious

Jingshan Zhiyu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī ngsh āī nzh ī y ù, which means a metaphor for extremely precious things. From the book with Yang dezu.

Notes on Idioms

Jingshan: the name of the mountain. It is now in the west of Nanzhang County, Hubei Province. This mountain produces precious jade. It is said that heshibi came from this mountain.

The origin of Idioms

In the book with Yang dezu written by Wei Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "everyone holds the Pearl of the snake, and every family holds the jade of the Jingshan mountain."

Idiom usage

As an object; of something extremely precious. Like the Pearl of the night, it is broken but not complete, and the jade of Jingshan is defiled but not grindable. In Chapter 15 of the Phoenix pool written by Yanxia Sanren in Qing Dynasty, a group of scholars such as Jian'an Zhuzi, Yang Xiu and Wu Zhi gathered around him and Cao Pi like stars holding the moon. ——From Ma Lianghuai, the literati no longer fear loneliness after Tao Yuanming