Mixed rice salt
Miscellaneous rice salt, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l í ngz á m ǐ y á n, which means to describe messy and trivial. It comes from Tianguan book in historical records.
The origin of Idioms
Sima Qian's tianguanshu in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty: "in modern times, the twelve princes and seven kingdoms' prime ministers followed the balance, while Gao, Tang, Gan and Shi discussed their books and biographies because of the current affairs, so they were regarded as salt."
Idiom usage
It is troublesome to describe the messy and trivial things.
Mixed rice salt
startled monkeys or hare -- flee in disorder - jīng yuán tuō tù
stir up trouble with very little cause - jiàn shì shēng fēng
worry about the confused state affairs - xīn tíng duì qì
be surrounded by hills and rivers - zǔ shān dài hé
would not explain unless one is desperately anxious to learn - bù fèn bù qǐ
a happy match is fixed by heaven - hóng yè tí shī