hide like a dead body and appear like a dragon

hide like a dead body and appear like a dragon

The corpse lives in the dragon. It is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is sh ī J ū L ó ngxi à n, and its meaning is static as a corpse and moving as a dragon. It comes from Zhuangzi.

The origin of Idioms

In Zhuangzi, it appears twice before and after. In Zhuangzi · zaiyou, there is a saying that "therefore, a gentleman can't understand his five treasures, can't promote his intelligence, can't see the Dragon when he lives in a corpse, and can't hear thunder when he is silent." In Zhuangzi's Tianyun, there is a saying: "but is it true that a man's corpse lives and the Dragon sees it, thunder and silence, and the engine is like heaven and earth?"

Idiom usage

It refers to dynamic and static.