green light and yellow volume -- to study at night
Qingdenghuangjuan, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī NGD ē nghu á ngju à n, which means the oil lamp with green light and the book with yellow paper, referring to the hard life of studying. It comes from the cold lamp in the library.
The origin of Idioms
In Yuan Dynasty, ye Shu's poem "the cold lamp in the book house" said: "the blue and yellow lights accompany the longer time, and the silver flowers are fragrant at midnight."
Idiom usage
It refers to the lonely life of practicing Buddhism. The fourth fold of yuan and Guan Hanqing's the moon Pavilion: "you love the bright lights, but don't change randomly." In the past ten years, the firefly window has been struggling. The 36th chapter of Jin Ping Mei CI Hua
green light and yellow volume -- to study at night
know and observe all but stay obscure - zhī bái shǒu hēi