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There are few Chinese idioms, Pinyin is Li á Oli á ow ú J ǐ, which means to describe rare, few. It comes from Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in Qing Dynasty.
Idiom usage
The book is very beautiful. If I knew more about songs, I would be more interesting. Such a military doctor is not allowed in Japan now. Lu Xun's collection of letters
The origin of Idioms
The first chapter of Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in the Qing Dynasty: "few people even make poems."
scanty
give a swift glance and practise fawning - yān shì mèi xíng
assist one 's generation and bring comfort to the common people - jì shì ān bāng