"The sound of a jade chime pierced through the forest, and suddenly there was the sound of glass shattering." It comes from "Zhizi Ningbing" by Yang Wanli, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. The full poem is as follows:
"Zhizi Ningbing" "Ice"
The child's golden basin breaks away from the ice, and the colorful silk threads are used as silver weapons.
The jade chime made a sound as it penetrated the forest, and suddenly there was a sound of glass shattering.
Translation
A child got up in the morning, cut out the ice from a copper basin with solid ice, and threaded it with colored silk to use as a jang. The sound of knocking sounded like a jade chime through the woods, and suddenly the ice fell to the ground and made a shattering sound like glass.