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dissipated young sets who take a fancy to lewdness

Playing with bees and butterflies, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ó UF ē NGX ì di é, which means flying butterflies and bees, later used to refer to the prodigal children. It comes from two songs about spring in Shanfang.

Idiom explanation

Flying game of butterflies and bees. Later, it is used as a metaphor for the prodigal children.

The origin of Idioms

CEN Shen of Tang Dynasty wrote two songs about spring in Shanfang: "the wind is calm, the sun is warm, the spring is shining, and people's houses are disturbed by butterflies and bees."

Idiom usage

In Song Dynasty, Lu You's the feeling that the Posthouse Begonia has passed: "when you are busy, you don't know that the beauty is in the west chamber."