cook the crane for meat and burn a stringed instrument for fuel -- destroy sth. valuable or fine

cook the crane for meat and burn a stringed instrument for fuel -- destroy sth. valuable or fine

Boil the crane and burn the Qin, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ǔ h è f é NQ í n, meaning to burn the Qin as firewood and cook the crane to eat, which means to spoil beautiful things. It comes from the collection of Tiaoxi yuyincong Zhuan by Hu Zai of Song Dynasty and quoted from Xiqing Shihua.

Interpretation of Idioms

To burn the Qin as firewood and cook the crane as food is a metaphor for spoiling beautiful things.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Hu Zai's collection of Tiaoxi yuyincong Zhuan quoted from Xiqing Poetry Talks: "Yishan's zazuan has ten items and covers them with funny articles. One is to kill the scenery, that is, to wash the feet in the clear spring, to burn the flowers in the sun, to set up a building behind the mountain, to cook the Qin and the crane. "

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning example pity for jade, no emotion to provoke right and wrong. (Chapter 18 of outlaws of the marsh)