different tunes rendered with equal skill

different tunes rendered with equal skill

In Chinese, Pinyin is t ó NGG ō ngy ì Q ǔ, which means that different tunes are performed equally well, different metaphors have the same meaning, or different ways of doing things can achieve the goal skillfully. It comes from the lecture on learning.

Idiom explanation

Work: meticulous, clever; different: different.

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu of Tang Dynasty wrote in Jin Xue Jiang: "Zi Yun is similar to each other, but the same works are different."

Idiom usage

It is the same as "the same is the same".

Examples

These two works were published almost at the same time. Preface to the book of Chinese grammar by Zhu Dexi

Idiom story

Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong, two famous writers in the Western Han Dynasty, are good at Ci Fu. Sima Xiangru was a person in the period of emperor Jingdi of the Han Dynasty, whose works include Zixu Fu and Shanglin Fu, and his rhetoric is gorgeous. Yang Xiong was a person in the period of emperor chengdi of the Han Dynasty, whose works include Ganquan Fu and Hedong Fu, advocating political reform. Han Yu, a writer of the Tang Dynasty, commented that "Ziyun is similar to each other, and the same works are different."