float upon the clouds

float upon the clouds

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī ngxi ā ozh í sh à ng, meaning to rise to a high position quickly. It comes from Song Dynasty Liu Kezhuang's "sending Hong Shiyu".

Idiom explanation

Rapid rise to a high position. It is the same as "the rising clouds".

The origin of Idioms

One of the poems of Liu Kezhuang in Song Dynasty is to send Hong Shiyu: "it is easy to climb up the ladder from the sky, but it is difficult to build an iron wall with a white head."

Analysis of Idioms

Near synonym: the rising clouds

Idiom usage

It refers to the position of a person