minute things

minute things

The Pearl of a grain of rice is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is m ǐ L ì zh ī, which means to refer to small things. From the romance of Fengshen.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 53 of the romance of Fengshen by Xu Zhonglin of Ming Dynasty: "the Pearl of rice, such as Liao Er, doesn't spit out much light; the fly's wings fly, and it's not far away."

Idiom usage

As a subject or object; of small things.

Examples

The seventy first chapter of Liang Yusheng's crazy chivalrous fairy: "the Pearl of rice is also shining!"