Nine steams and three shrimps
The Chinese idiom, Ji ǔ zh ē ngs ā NSH ē ng in pinyin, means that the heat rises to steam and the fire dries to steam. It means that it has been tempered for a long time. From "folk song steamer".
The idiom comes from Feng Menglong's folk song steamer of Ming Dynasty: "I used to be nine steamers and three steamers
Nine steams and three shrimps
What you say but what you don't do - yǒu kǒu wú xíng
White sand is in Nirvana, black with it - bái shān zài niè,yǔ zhī jù hēi
the cowherd and the weaving maid lovers separated by the milky way -- husband and wife living apart - niú xīng zhī nǚ