One of the four-character idioms for the store is the drugstore flying dragon.
Pinyin: yào diàn fēi lóng.
Pinyin: 一ㄠˋㄉ一ㄢˋㄈㄟㄌㄨㄥˊ.
Explanation: Feilong: refers to the Chinese medicine dragon bone. Keel in the pharmacy. It is a metaphor for a person who is skinny.
Source:
1. "Reading Songs" by Yuefu of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties: "Since I bid farewell to my husband, I have been lying on my bed without lifting my head. The flying dragon fell into the drugstore, and the bones came out only for you."
2. The poem "Weeping Willow" by Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty: "It used to be a phoenix on the piano platform, but now it is a dragon in the pharmacy."
Usage: as an object; refers to a person who is emaciated.
Emotions: Drugstore dragon is a derogatory term.
Synonyms: drugstore dragon.
Poem Appreciation
"Not raising the head" refers to illness. It describes that after breaking up with her lover, she fell in love with her, and initially uses the perspective that longing has serious consequences to highlight the depth of the heroine's lovesickness. On this basis, the last two sentences further express "The flying dragon fell into the drugstore, and the bones came out just for you." This is still about lovesickness based on the results of lovesickness, depicting that the woman is not only lovesick and ill, but also extremely thin.
There is a kind of "dragon bone" in traditional Chinese medicine. The word "bone comes out" after "flying dragon falls into the drugstore" is written here. On the surface, it is written as dragon bone, but it actually refers to the bone of missing a wife. It is a pun to express the depth of lovesickness. , the pain of lovesickness is both tangible and tangible, yet clever and euphemistic.