Haohao, a China idiom, pinyin is hà o rú yā n h m: i, which describes the richness of ancient books. From Guan Zhen's Dream Fu in Sui Dynasty.
Discrimination of idioms
There are many documents describing "a sea of smoke"
"Vast sea of smoke" comes from Song Sima Guang's "Jin (Zi Jian) Table": "Reading old history, collecting novels by the side, concise and accumulated, so it is vast." It means vast and numerous, like a huge ocean, which describes extremely rich documents and materials.
For example, the biography of Dai Dunyuan in Qing Dynasty: "There are so many books that you can't finish reading them all your life." Zhao Jiabi's Editor's Memories: "Since the May 4th Movement, the literary works translated and introduced from abroad are really vast." A poem by Huineng and monk Qin Mu: "Is it accidental that it spreads in a vast collection of ballads?" ?
The usage scope of this idiom is established, but now someone has improperly expanded it. For example:
(1) It is a headache to choose eight new cars among the vast number of new cars on display. (Guangzhou Daily 2008 165438+ 10/7)
(2) Nanjing's vast celebrity former residence is a rare business card of this ancient city. (Jiangnan Daily, March 5, 2009)
(3) There are countless calligraphers who have written "dragon", but those who can write "dragon" from Oracle Bone Inscriptions to simplified Chinese characters 100 1 are unprecedented. (People's Daily Overseas Edition, May 26, 2009)
(4) Journalists have strong news sensitivity, and can find and capture news-worthy facts in time among the complicated facts. (People's Daily Online August 2008 1 1)
(5) In recent years, different people have different opinions, and the views expressed by heroes from all walks of life are also vast. (People's Network April 22, 2009)
The above examples, whether concrete things ("new car", "former residence") and people ("calligrapher") or abstract concepts ("facts" and "opinions"), are beyond the scope of this idiom. In fact, there are many idioms that describe a large number of people, and there is a great choice, such as:
(1) Replace with "various".
(2) use "dot".
(3) use "countless".
(4) Use "Wan Qing Lin Hai".
(5) If you change it to "too numerous to enumerate", you can get through at once. Why do you have to cling to an inappropriate "vast sea of smoke"?
As for the following two situations, it is even more unreasonable to confuse "a sea of smoke" with "a sea of smoke":
(6) the border is picturesque and the border is as iron. On the endless northern boundary river, a group of new sailors braved the wind and waves and started their new journey. (People's Liberation Army Daily, August 2009 12).
(7) Listen to the beautiful "Cheese Legend" and enjoy the vast and rippling Laixi Lake. (People's Daily Online, May 4, 2009).