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
The wind, the horse and the Ox are not equal - fēng mǎ niú bù xiāng jí
Soldiers come to the enemy, water comes to the earth - bīng lái jiàng dí,shuǐ lái tǔ yàn
Cut down on the achievements and reserve the ability - fá gōng jīn néng
disregard all favours or humiliations - chǒng rǔ jiē wàng