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What kind of quality does one piano and one crane describe?

For the quality of political simplicity. One harp and one crane is a Chinese idiom whose pinyin is yīqínyīhè. It originally refers to the Song Dynasty when Zhao Bian went to Sichuan to serve as an official. The only things he brought with him were a harp and a crane. It describes the simple and sparse traveling clothes, and is also a metaphor for the incorruptibility of officials. From "Mengxi Bi Tan": "Zhao Yuedao was a transshipment historian in Chengdu. When he traveled to the ministry, he only carried a harp and a crane. When he sat, he watched the cranes, drums and harp." Idiom story: During the Northern Song Dynasty, local official Zhao Pian went to Chengdu, Shu, to take up his post. The carry-on luggage is the guqin in the cloth bag and the white crane in the bamboo basket, each carried on a horse, and the other two sleeves are Qingfeng. Song Shenzong heard that Zhao Pian's luggage only consisted of a harp and a crane. He admired his character very much and hoped that after he took office, he would have an elite army, simple administration, and be honest and honest. Zhao Pian's political achievements have also been widely recited.