To carve wood for a swan
Time: 2022-01-31 02:09:10 Author: ChinaWiki.net
To carve wood for a swan
Carved wood as a swan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k è m ù w é IH ú, which means that imitation is not realistic, but similar. It's from Jing Guan Suo Yan by Zheng Yuan of Ming Dynasty.
Idioms and allusions
[source] Volume 1 of Jing Guan Suo Yan by Zheng Yuan of Ming Dynasty: "Yang's FA Yan and Wang's Zhong Shuo are the so-called carved wood as a swan."
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It's like a duck
To carve wood for a swan
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