bleak and desolate
Oatmeal is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ù Ku í y à nm à I, which means to describe the scene desolate. From "another visit to xuandu Temple".
The origin of Idioms
The preface of Liu Yuxi's "revisiting xuandu Temple" in Tang Dynasty: "revisiting xuandu, there are no more trees, only rabbits, sunflowers and oats are shaken by spring breeze."
Idiom usage
Rabbit, sunflower, oatmeal, to the setting sun, to be with others. Song Dynasty, Zhou Bangyan's poem "night flying magpie"
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: oatmeal rabbit sunflower
bleak and desolate
heed only one side and you will be benighted - piān xìn zé àn