the best and the brightest

the best and the brightest

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī sh í zh ī Xu ǎ n, which means the outstanding talents of a certain period. It comes from the biography of Wei Kang in the book of the new Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

The biography of Wei Kang in the book of the new Tang Dynasty: "all the examples it created, such as Wang Wei, Wang Jin, Cui Yin, etc., were selected by Yun for a time." In the preface to fan Kuan's memorials by Zeng Gong of Song Dynasty, it is said that "those who take speech as their duty, such as the public, are chosen at one time."

Idiom usage

As an object; as a written language; as an example Zhang Dezhi of Lantian County and Liu Congyi of Yexian County were both very cautious and intelligent. On the biography of Xunli in the history of Jin Dynasty