Traditional four-character idioms in China

1, rather short than much, interpretation; I'd rather be short. You can't choose the bad ones. Zuo Qiuming, a historian in the late Spring and Autumn Period of Zuo Zhuan Xiang Gong Twenty-six Years.

2, flies and ants gather and perform; Metaphor means that many people get together. The fifteenth rain flower in the sky. Tanci works in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Liang woman Tao Zhenhuai, Zhejiang, was a woman in the late Ming Dynasty.

3, enchanting, deductive; It turned out to be a ghost in ancient legends. Refers to all kinds of bad people. Zuo Qiuming, a historian at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Zhuan Gong Xuan for Three Years.

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There are more than 50,000 idioms, 96% of which are four-character, and there are also idioms with three characters, five characters, six characters and seven characters or more. Such as "pot calling the kettle black", "Shut the door", "reinvent the wheel", "haste makes waste" and "drunkenness is not about wine". Idioms generally use four words, probably because they are easy to grasp.

For example, China's ancient poetry collection "The Book of Songs" consists of four sentences, and the ancient history "Shangshu" also has some four sentences. Later, I began to read San Zi Jing, Hundred Family Names and Ganzi Wen, the last two of which are all four sentences. The first, second and third episodes of Four-eyed Miscellaneous Son and Long Wen Whip Shadow are all four words.

Although this is a sermon, it shows that these four words are loved and recited by people. Some words of the ancients could have been aphorisms and idioms. Just because it was more troublesome to change it to four words, I had to give it up and use it as a guide. For example, The Story of Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower in Song Dynasty has the expression "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later", which has a good meaning.

However, due to the large number of words, idioms cannot be formed. We can only regard them as epigrams, and sometimes they are also introductory articles. However, if "no pains come", it is easy to say and remember, so it can become an idiom. The phrase "all wastes flourish" in Yueyang Tower is an idiom, because it is four words.