Jade and stone are broken
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y ù sh í Ji ē Su ì, which means that both jade and stone are burned. It comes from the moving Shu Xi written by Wei Zhonghui of the Three Kingdoms.
The origin of Idioms
Wei Zhonghui's "move to Shu" in the Three Kingdoms States States: "if you secretly settle down, you will be confused but not turn back. If you send a big soldier, you will be broken. Although you want to regret it, you can't have it."
Idiom usage
As predicate, attributive, object
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: jade and stone burn, jade and stone destroy
Jade and stone are broken
to be in one 's declining year - zhōng míng lòu jìn