Snow bowl and ice cup
Xuewanbingou is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Xu ě w ǎ Nb ī ng ō u, which means that bowls and basins are white and clean. It also refers to elegant poetry. It comes from Ci Yun Zhen Yunqing's late ascent to Fu Qiu Pavilion.
The origin of Idioms
Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem called "Ge Zhongyu Fanwu Fangjian, Xue WanBing ouzi gouqing"
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences
Snow bowl and ice cup
A scholar dies for a bosom friend - shì wèi zhī jǐ zhě sǐ