The stars and frost are moving
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī ngshu ā NGL ǚ y í, which means the change of years. It comes from the book of Wang's auspicious poems for Xue Taishou of Dongping.
Notes on Idioms
Star Frost: Stars circulate once a year, and frost falls in autumn every year. Therefore, star frost refers to age.
The origin of Idioms
Gao Shi of Tang Dynasty wrote a list of Wang's Rui poems for Xue Taishou of Dongping: "the stars and frosts have moved many times, but the calligraphy is still missing."
Idiom usage
Change of years.
The stars and frost are moving
stratagem of making the enemy conceited by showing weakness - jiāo bīng zhī jì
unable to distinguish black from white - bù fēn qīng béi
take measures only when in urgency - kě ér jué jǐng
a shortsighted and good-for-nothing person - ròu yǎn fán fū
expect the reality to correspond to the name - lǎn míng zé shí