sing of the moon and the wind

sing of the moon and the wind

Reciting the wind and the moon is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y í NF ē NGN ò ngyu è, which means that literati used to write or recite works about natural scenery such as the wind and the moon. Now more description works empty boring. It comes from the epitaph of Li Hanlin by fan chuanzheng of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the epitaph of Li Hanlin, written by fan chuanzheng of Tang Dynasty, "chanting the wind and the moon, sitting on the sky and the curtain of the earth, but it's suitable for you. I don't know why you are so suitable."

Idiom usage

So Cao Xueqin said calmly, "Xiuchun, don't think that in our poetry society, we are all moaning without illness." Gao Yang's another biography of Cao Xueqin