Sleeping in frost and snow

Sleeping in frost and snow

Sleeping in frost and snow, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is mi á nshu ā NGW ò Xu ě, which means sleeping in frost and snow. It's about working outside. From the five Lantern Festival.

The origin of Idioms

Volume 15 of the five Lantern Festival yuan by Shi Puji of Song Dynasty: ask: "why did you not gain fame after fighting in the battlefield for a long time?" The teacher said, "just for sleeping in the frost and sleeping in the snow."

Idiom usage

I have also made great achievements in fighting hard and sleeping in the snow. The second part of Guan Hanqing's crying for filial piety in Yuan Dynasty