Deer skin and jade

Deer skin and jade

Lu PI cangbi, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ù P í C ā NGB ì, which means to describe the original and the end are not matched. It comes from the book of the Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of the Han Dynasty, Shihuo Zhi II: "Shang (Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) and Tang (Zhang Tang) both made white deer skin coins, and asked about the difference (Yan Yi). It is said that "today, the emperors and Marquises are paying tribute to cangbi for thousands of yuan, but their skin recommendation is against 400000 yuan, which is not commensurate."

Word usage

It's an object or attribute. It's used for incongruous things. Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: "when I went to see Wu Daozi's painting of Buddha in Chang'an and Chen Hanqing's house, it was a pity that I saw it again in more than ten years later, but when I came to see Xianyu Jun's house, I had already packed my back in good condition, so that I could see his posthumous poem Xie Zhi."