Bury jade in incense

Bury jade in incense

Bury jade and bury incense, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ì y ù m á IXI ā ng, meaning the death of a beautiful woman. From the preface to yingti.

The origin of Idioms

Wu Wenying's preface to yingti in the Southern Song Dynasty said, "farewell to the empress, no letter from Liuqiao, going to Huawei, burying jade and burying incense, several storms."

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym for burying incense and jade

Idiom usage

The death of a beautiful woman. In the song of Chen Shi, a disciple of Guo Fangqing, an old prostitute in Jiaofang, written by Gao Qi of Ming Dynasty: "how many years have you been buried in jade and buried in incense?"