the stars and moon vie with each other in brightness
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī ngyu è Ji ā Ohu ī, refers to the stars and the moon shining together, especially bright. It comes from Song Ouyang Xiu's Ode to autumn sound.
The origin of Idioms
Ouyang Xiu's Ode to the sound of autumn in Song Dynasty: "the stars and the moon are bright, and the river is in the sky."
Idiom usage
Examples
On the night of March 14, the wind was clear and the air was cool. The 90th chapter of the romance of awakening the world
the stars and moon vie with each other in brightness
the corpses lie all over the countryside - shī héng biàn yě
Learning and then knowing, teaching and then difficulties - xué rán hòu zhī bùzú,jiāo rán hòu zhīkùn
regard it as a dangerous road to take - shì wéi wèi tú
The rest of the chicken and the porpoise - jī tún zhī xī