Chinese idiom · 成语
焚琴煮鹤
Meaning
To burn a zither and cook a crane; to ruin refined things.
Character by character
焚burn
琴zither
煮cook
鹤crane
Origin and story
From Song dynasty anecdotes. Destroying art or elegance for crude purposes shows ignorance.
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