in guangdong dogs bark at the snow

in guangdong dogs bark at the snow

Yue dog barks at snow, a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Yu è Qu ǎ NF è ixu ě, meaning that it seldom snows in Guangdong. Dogs bark when they see snow. Metaphors are less common than strange. It comes from the book of Tao of Li Lun Shi in Wei Zhong written by Liu Zongyuan of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his book "reply to Wei Zhong Li Lun Shi Dao Shu": "in the first six or seven years, my servant came to the south. In the winter of the second year, I was lucky to have snowed over the mountains and was killed by several states in South Vietnam. The dogs in several states are all barking and biting. They have been walking wildly for many days, but there is no snow

Analysis of Idioms

The dog barks at the sun

Idiom usage

It's not a job for a dog to bark at the snow, but it's like a summer worm in Cantonese. Song · Yang Wanli's litchi song