great joy among the people
Magpie laughs and dove dances, a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Qu è Xi à Oji à w à, which means magpie cheers and dove flies. Used as a festive message. The source is Yilin.
Analysis of Idioms
Ghost crying
The origin of Idioms
Jiao Yanshou's Yilin of the Han Dynasty, Volume 6: "the magpie laughs and the dove dances, leaving me wine."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate; used as a festive message.
great joy among the people
go on a journey of thousands of miles - wàn lǐ cháng zhēng
Learning is like climbing a mountain - xuá rú dēng shān
to manufacture a perfect cart begins from the simple spokeless wheel - dà lù zhuī lún
have the same likes and dislikes - qì wèi xiāng tóu
begin happily but end in failure - suǒ wěi liú lí