Chanting the moon and mocking the wind

Chanting the moon and mocking the wind

Chanting the moon and mocking the wind, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǒ ngyu è ch á of ē ng, which means to describe scenes such as wind, cloud, moon, dew and so on, but with poor ideological content. It's from shiyiji.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Jia of the Jin Dynasty wrote in his collection of anecdotes: "don't learn from him. He mocks the wind and praises the moon

Idiom usage

It refers to boring works.

Examples

Chanting the moon and mocking the wind should be reduced first, and climbing mountains and facing rivers should be rare. Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty

Ming Ni Minyue's "new water order · joyous" divertimento: "one praises the moon and mocks the wind, the other holds the clouds and holds the rain, they all behave in general."