杜甫草堂
Dù Fǔ Cǎo táng
Pinyin
Definition
杜甫草堂
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- Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (park and museum in Chengdu)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
人生一世,草木一春
- 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兵马未动,粮草先行
- 1 before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
- 2 an army marches on its stomach
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)