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Four Character Idioms in Ancient Style

Four-character idioms of ancient style references are as follows:

White foal past the gap, like water flowing years, the six rounds of reincarnation, righteousness, obscene rainfall, Qionglouyuyuyuyuu, ruler tree inch泓, bake clouds to the moon, ancient colors, peach of the young, with boat **** ji, plum and bamboo, lifting up the case together, spring flowers, autumn and moon, floating life is like a dream, grace and elegance, out of the water as a hibiscus, A pillow of day red, Li Bai peach red, colorful purple demon red.

Expanded Knowledge:

Chengduo (pinyin: chéng, yǔ, English: idiom) is a stereotyped word in the Chinese vocabulary. The idioms, which are spoken by all, have become the language of the people, so they are idiomatic. Most of the idioms are four characters, but there are also three characters, five characters and even more than seven characters.

Chinese idioms are a major feature of traditional Chinese culture, with fixed structural forms and fixed sayings, expressing certain meanings, and applied as a whole in statements, taking on the components of subject, object and determiner. A large part of idioms are inherited from ancient times, which represent a story or allusion.

Some idioms are miniature sentences. Idioms are also ready-made words, similar to idioms and proverbs, but also slightly different.

Chinese idioms are a bright pearl in Chinese culture.

Basic Explanation:

Chinese idioms are a kind of fixed phrases used for a long time in ancient Chinese vocabulary, which come from ancient classics or writings, historical stories and people's oral stories.

The pithy meaning of idioms is often implied in the literal meaning, not a simple addition of the meanings of its constituents.

It is tightly structured, and generally cannot be used to change the order of words, change or add or subtract components.

The form of its four-word majority, there are also some three-word and multi-word, mostly composed of four words. Simply put, idioms are terms that, when spoken, are known to everyone, can be quoted from scripture, have clear sources and allusions, and are used to a fairly high degree.

1, idiomatic ancient language.

Ancient texts should not follow the idioms of predecessors, when the oddity of self-improvement; four or six should be used in the idioms of predecessors, and the compound should not be raw to seek differences.

Yuan - Liu Qi "return to the submerged Zhi" Volume 12: "Ancient text should not follow the previous idiom, when the strange self-improvement; four or six should be used in the previous idiom, and should not be raw to seek different."

Li Yu (李渔), Qing Dynasty, wrote, "All the sentences that are difficult to pronounce are not suitable for the creation of a new language, and should only be quoted in idioms."

Lu Xun, "The Grave - My View of Festivity": "How did the woman who did not observe the festival (the Chinese say that not observing the festival as 'losing the festival', but did not have the idiom, so he could only be called 'not festive') harm the country? "

2, refers to the long-term habitual, structurally stereotyped, complete meaning of the fixed phrase, mostly composed of four characters.

Qing Dynasty - Ren Taixue "Questioning - Scripture Meaning": "To accomplish something without saying anything, to attempt something without admonishing, and not to be blamed for the past, or the idioms of the time."

Zhao Shuli, "The Golden Character": "I thought for a while, came up with an ambiguous idiom, and wrote the four big words 'having a reputation'."