Chinese idioms like 「夏爐冬扇」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Learn about the idiom 「夏爐冬扇」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Light a fire in the summer and fan yourself in the winter. It is a metaphor for doing things that do not meet the needs of the time, resulting in wasted effort but no benefits.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xià lú dōng shàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ha6 lou4 dung1 sin3
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