A Brief Introduction to Idiom Story 365

Idiom story 365 consists of 365 idiom stories suitable for children to read. The book tells a lot of historical knowledge, folk customs, philosophy of life, and with vivid and interesting serial color pictures, the pictures and texts set each other off.

There are famous war stories such as Everything is Ready, Only the East Wind is Needed, Encircling the State of Wei to Save Zhao, An Empty City Plan, as well as fairy tales such as Kuafu Reclaiming the Sea Day by Day, Jingwei Reclaiming the Sea, and Making the Finishing Point, covering famous historical figures such as Confucius, Mencius, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Sun Tzu, emperors and generals, and people of past dynasties. The content is very rich.

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Basic characteristics of idioms:

1, structural fixity

The components and structural forms of idioms are fixed, and it is generally impossible to change or increase or decrease morphemes at will.

For example, "cold lips and cold teeth" cannot be changed to "cold lips and cold teeth"; "No ink in the chest" cannot be added as "No ink in the chest".

In addition, the word order in idioms is fixed and cannot be changed at will.

For example, "context" cannot be changed to "context"; "Great achievements" cannot be changed to "great achievements".

2. Integrity of meaning

Idioms are holistic in meaning. Its meaning is often not the simple addition of its constituent meanings, but the overall meaning further summarized on the basis of its constituent meanings.

For example, "Smith", on the surface, means "the fox uses the tiger's strength", but in fact, it is "bullying people with the strength of others"; "Cooking with a dead rabbit and a dead dog" seems to be "cooking with a dead rabbit and a dead dog", but in fact it is "people who serve the rulers and are abandoned or killed when they are finished".

3. Diversity of grammatical functions

From the perspective of Chinese grammar, Chinese idioms are equivalent to a phrase in a sentence. Because phrases can act as different components in sentences, the grammatical functions of idioms are also varied.

There are various forms of Chinese idioms, including four-character idioms, five-character idioms, six-character idioms, seven-character idioms and eight-character idioms, among which four-character idioms are the main form of Chinese idioms.

4. Elegant style.

Idioms usually come from ancient documents or proverbs, and their styles are solemn and elegant.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-idioms