peach and plum trees vie with one another in the splendor of their blossoms

peach and plum trees vie with one another in the splendor of their blossoms

Taoli Zhengyan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t á ol ǐ zh ē ngy á n, which means peach blossom and plum blossom competing, used to describe the beauty of spring. From the coming of all nations.

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of Ming Dynasty's Wu Mingshi's the coming of all nations: "beautiful spring flowers, red and white peaches and Li Zhengyan."

Idiom usage

Spring refers to spring. In Shen Fu's six chapters of a floating life, the music of the boudoir, it is just the time for peach and plum to compete for beauty