A mixture of jade and stone

A mixture of jade and stone

It is a mixture of jade and stone. It is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is y ù sh í Z á R ó u, which is a mixture of good and bad. It comes from Lun Heng, Lei Wu.

The origin of Idioms

In Wang Chong's Lun Heng Lei Cha of Han Dynasty, it is said that "the Duke and Marquis have been descended, and the jade and stone are mixed together; the deeds of the virtuous and the evil are combined."

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; used in figurative sentences