heart of stone

heart of stone

Heart of stone, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti ě sh í x ī ng ā n, which means heart of stone. Describe a person's strong disposition. The same as "heart of stone". It comes from the story of the golden boy and the beautiful girl.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Dui of Ming Dynasty wrote in the story of the golden boy and the beautiful girl Jiao Hong: "my mother-in-law has a heart of iron and stone, and her face is wrinkled with ice. She looks like she is a woman, and she looks like she is not a human being."

Idiom usage

The old Xiaolian lived in a lonely grave on the tip of the Chu mountain. The second part of Gu Yanwu's "Chu monk Yuan Ying's quatrains on Hunan's past 30 years"