fine drizzling rain

fine drizzling rain

Niuxieyu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni ú m á ox ì y ǔ, which refers to the thin and dense light rain, like ox hair. It comes from Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery in Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery in the Qing Dynasty (Volume 5): "Niu Xieyu sends the setting sun."

Idiom usage

It's a bit formal; it's a subject or an object; it's used to describe the light rain, but it's so cloudy that there's no sunshine. Tao Cheng's my family

Analysis of Idioms

It's downpour and torrential rain