Most idioms have a certain origin. For example, The Warring States Policy from Smith? Chu ce, the struggle between snipe and clam comes from Yan ce, painting the snake to add feet comes from Qi ce, and carving a boat to seek a sword comes from Lu Chunqiu? Check in, "self-contradiction" comes from "everything is wrong? Dilemma "is an ancient fable. For example, "Return to Zhao intact" in Historical Records? "Lian Po and Lin Xiangru Biography" is from historical records? "Biography of Xiang Yu" is from "Book of Jin"? Record of Fu Jian and Kill Two Birds with One Stone are from The History of the North? "Sun Shengchuan" and "a honey belly sword" come from "Tang Shu? Biography of Li is a historical story. As for the interception of ancient books, it is more common as a four-character idiom. For example, Orderly is taken from Shangshu? Pan Geng's "If the outline is in the outline, it will be orderly" and "Draw inferences from the Analects of Confucius"? "Take a corner, don't take three corners, otherwise, it will never happen again", "I am saddened" is taken from Zuo Zhuan's Thirteen Years of Being an Official, "I am saddened, I will be immune to it" and "I am competitive" is taken from Zhuangzi? The fisherman's "Lord of a thousand riders, king of a thousand riders, reckless" and "servility" are taken from Ge Hong's "Bao Puzi? Communication is not smooth with Yue Zhi's independents, but with others' vassals as the secular solution. The thought of planning is taken from Su Shi's "Pen and Ink Yan Gu Yan Zhu Ji" in the Song Dynasty. Wait, the list goes on. There are also many people who make sentences in ancient Chinese. Such as "worrying about the country" in the Book of Songs? Zhao Nan? Worm ","external strength is hollow "comes from Zuo Zhuan for fifteen years, and" waiting for work "comes from Sun Tzu? In military struggle, Seeking the Root of the Matter comes from Su Shi's Fu on the Back of the Red Cliff, Meeting by chance comes from Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting in the Tang Dynasty, and Unbreakable comes from Han Yu's Ping Huai Xi Bei in the Tang Dynasty.
Some four-character idioms that people often use can also be classified as idioms. Such as "speaking like a book", "procrastinating", "obeying yin qi", "no three no four" and "calling a spade a spade" have the same structure as idioms. There are also some idioms that appear by accepting foreign cultures. For example, hype, explosion, incredible and the only way.
Idioms are generally four-character, not too few. Such as "pot calling the kettle black", "Haste makes waste" and "The meaning of drunkenness is not in wine". Idioms generally use four-character case, which is related to the syntactic structure of Chinese itself and the monosyllabic words in ancient Chinese.
Idioms are long-term fixed phrases or phrases with concise form and incisive meaning. Idioms are mostly composed of four words, but there are also three or more words. There are five sources of idioms: first, myths and legends, such as Kuafu's daily and jingwei land reclamation; Second, fables, such as carving a boat for a sword, confuse the false with the true; Third, historical stories, such as offering a humble apology and cross the rubicon; Fourth, literary works, such as "Lao Ji Fu Yong" and "Taking care of you"; Fifth, foreign cultures, such as boundless merits, take chestnuts from the fire.
A large part of idioms are passed down from ancient times, and they are often different from modern Chinese in terms of words. There are sentences from ancient books, phrases compressed from ancient articles and idioms from people's mouths. Some meanings can be understood literally, while others can't, especially allusions. Such as "full of sweat and cows", "crouching tiger, hidden dragon", "making a comeback" and "being surrounded by grass and trees" occupy a certain proportion in Chinese idioms. Chinese has a long history and many idioms, which is also a major feature of Chinese.