Pinyin niú guǐ shé shén

Idiom Story During the Tang Dynasty, Li He, a versatile and short-lived poet, left many famous sentences, such as "The cock crows all over the world" and "Dark clouds crush the city to destroy it", which have been passed down to this day. The poet Du Mu also wrote a Preface to Li He's Poems for him, commenting on his poems as: "The whale shakes, and the ghost is not empty."

Allusions whales suck and throw, ghosts and strange, not for its absurdity. Preface of Tang Li and Li Heji

Explain the tauren and the serpent god. The original description is illusory and absurd. Metaphor is all kinds of bad people in society.

Used as subject, object and attribute; Refers to bad people

Similar words include cow's head and horse's face, monster, snake god and ghostly god.

The idiom Shi Lie is even more ridiculous, because he has nothing in his stomach, and he rambles, making him furtive and thinking that he is Aobo. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Qing Xueqin: Chapter 82