There is no house to build a beam
In Chinese, the Pinyin is m é IW à Ji à Li á ng, which means nothing. It's from Ling Mengchu's the second moment of surprise.
Idioms and allusions
It comes from the fourth volume of Ling Mengchu's the second quarter of the Ming Dynasty: "more ruthless people should start from the bottom of the wall at the head of the house: deceiving relatives, invading the countryside, receiving donations, nesting thieves, making waves without wind and without a roof."
Discrimination of words
Usage: used as an object or attributive
There is no house to build a beam
Advocate elegance and dethrone the floating - chóng yǎ chù fú
recover one 's original simplicity ; return to one 's original nature - fǎn pǔ guī zhēn
cling to the habitual ways and muddle on - yīn xún gǒu qiě