withered forest and dry rivers
Lin hanjiansu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l í NH á NJI à ns à, which means that the woods and streams are cool and quiet. It comes from the annotation to the water classic - river water.
The origin of Idioms
Li Daoyuan in the Northern Dynasty and later Wei Dynasty wrote in the notes to the water classic Jiangshui: "every clear day, frost day, Lin Hanjian Su, there are often high apes whistling, which leads to desolation."
Idiom usage
Every time it's sunny and frosty in the early days of frost, there's often a high ape whistling. It's a kind of strange and sad thing. It's heard in the empty valley, and it's sad for a long time. Li Daoyuan, a geographer of the Northern Wei Dynasty
withered forest and dry rivers
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