drift about without any definite trace like running water or duckweed
Wandering, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l à NGJ à P í ngz à ng, which means that people's tracks, such as waves and duckweeds, are floating and have no fixed place. It is used to describe the wandering trace, just like flowing water and duckweed. From peony pavilion.
The origin of Idioms
Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty (20th edition): "hate, wave, wind cut the hibiscus."
Analysis of Idioms
Wandering, wandering
Idiom usage
When you are introduced, you will have a career, no more than before. Xia Jingqu's the thirty ninth chapter of Ye sou Pao Yan in Qing Dynasty
drift about without any definite trace like running water or duckweed