Children in the mountains and stones in the rocks

Children in the mountains and stones in the rocks

Shantongshilan, a Chinese idiom, is sh à NT ó ngsh í L à n in pinyin, which means that there are no vegetation in the mountains and the stones are rotten. It means that there is no possible phenomenon. It's from the notes of Lupu, the oath of rejoicing.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Chang's poem "notes on Lupu · vow of rejoicing" in Song Dynasty: "the maid's banquet, vow dare not be immediately; Yu Meng disaster, God quality beside. If the mountain is young and the stone is rotten, the words can be born; if the mountain is high and the stone is strong, the words are not wrong. "

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.