Explanation of swallowing clouds and puffing smoke

Originally used to describe Taoist priests cultivating Qi and not eating grains. Later, it was used to describe people smoking.

The source of the idiom: Liang Shen Yue's "Ode to the Suburbs" of the Southern Dynasty: "At the beginning of the meal, the clouds are blowing out, and at the end the sky is empty and the reflection is reflected."

Idiom examples: But now we only have I heard that many people lay around and smoked, but it was rare to see anyone walking around drunk and crazy like foreign sailors.

Traditional Chinese writing: gulping clouds and spitting mist

Phonetic: ㄊㄨㄣㄧㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄨˇ ㄨˋ

Idiom grammar: used as predicate and attributive; Contains sarcasm

Usage level: Commonly used idioms

Emotion and color: Neutral idiom

Idiom structure: Joint idiom

Generation Era: Ancient idiom

English translation: blow a cloud

Afterword: Big smoker smokes opium