Variety refers to five flowers and eight doors? What do they stand for?

Five flowers refer to five flower arrays, namely, five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Eight gates refer to eight gate arrays, namely: open gate, closed gate, birth gate, injury gate, all gate, Jingmen gate, death gate and surprise gate.

"Variety" is a joint idiom of "Five Flowers Array" and "Eight Gates Array". It turns out that "Five Flowers Array" and "Eight Gates Array" are both array names in ancient art of war, and later people gradually used them as code words in some industries. Nowadays, "multifarious" is often used to mean that things are numerous and unpredictable.

"All kinds" comes from "Sun Jiagan, a new knowledge at the beginning of jade": "To the west of the dragon symbol, the peaks are chaotic, with four rows of trees like Pingsha, eight doors and five flowers." (To the west of Long Fu, the mountain peaks are scattered and unpredictable in all directions. )

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The antonym of "complicated": the same

1, "sameness" originally meant that a thousand articles were the same. Now refers to the formulation of the article. It is also a metaphor for doing things according to a format, which is very mechanical. It also refers to the old, dull and dull form of things. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Zhongrong wrote a poem: "Although Zhang Gong has thousands of words, he still has an ear." Although Zhang Gong has written thousands of articles, they are all the same. )

2, the same story:

During the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Hua often imitated the works of RoyceWong, a famous poet in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His poems describe the tenderness of his children and pay attention to beautiful rhetoric and rhetoric. At that time, he was a little famous. But the real insiders don't appreciate his works very much. Xie Lingyun, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, commented that his poems were the same and nothing new.

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