Buying bamboo slips and returning pearls comes from "Han Feizi, the foreign reserve says left" "Chu people have sold pearls to Zheng, which is Mulan's cabinet, decorated with Gui Xiang, pearls and jade, decorated with roses and jade, and Zheng people bought their bamboo slips and returned the pearls." Later, he used "buying gifts and returning pearls" to satirize those who made improper choices at all costs and warned people to prioritize and not to confuse or reverse them. We should not only look at the surface, but also pay attention to the content, otherwise we can only give up the basics.
The story goes like this: During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a jeweler in the State of Chu. He keeps his word in business, and many people are willing to come to him to buy jewelry. One day, a jeweler got a beautiful pearl and he was going to sell it. In order to get a good price, he wants to wrap the pearls. He felt that with noble packaging, the "identity" of pearls naturally rose.
Introduction to idioms
Idioms are stereotypes in Chinese vocabulary. Idioms, everyone says they have become words, and so do idioms. Idioms are mostly four-character, and some are three-character, five-character or even more than seven-character. Idioms are a bright pearl in China culture.
Idiom is a major feature of traditional culture in China, which has a fixed structure and a fixed sentence, indicating a certain meaning. It is applied to a sentence as a whole, with subject, object, attribute and other components. A large part of idioms are passed down from ancient times and represent a story or allusion. Some idioms are just a miniature sentence. Idiom is a ready-made word, similar to idioms and proverbs, but slightly different.
Fixed phrases comes from ancient classics or works, historical stories and people's oral stories. It is a unique and long-used fixed phrases in ancient Chinese vocabulary. The meaning of idioms is incisive, often implied in literal meaning, rather than simply adding up the meanings of their components. Its structure is tight, and it is generally impossible to change the word order, extract or increase or decrease its components at will.
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