Notes on Pinyin and Chewing Words;
[yáo wén jiao zì]
Describe thinking too much about words. More refers to dead words than to spiritual essence.
Synonym:
Choose your words carefully? Find fault? Engrave chapters and sentences? Chew every word? Talking about words? Auxiliary words in literary Chinese-pedantic terms/nonsense
Antonym:
A cursory tour? Swallow dates? A wave? No more words? Write? Do not seek deep understanding.
A riddle with the answer of "speaking like a book"
1. Import books (type an idiom)
2. Bookworm (playing idioms)
Extension:
Chewing words, also known as "articulation". Generally speaking, "flow of words" is considered as "thinking too much about words" and is regarded as a derogatory term, which is used to satirize people who only pay attention to words but don't understand the spiritual essence, and also to satirize people who like to show off their knowledge when speaking. The second fold of Qin's "Haircut for Guests": "You are a little ink, half a piece of paper, not delicious, not easy to use ... and you are saying that I am talking about words." Ming Ming's The Story on the Sima Xiangru Bridge: "Nowadays, ordinary people in that market read a few books and chew a few words, and people call him half a bottle of vinegar." But many times, some words need to be carefully pondered. In fact, "speaking like a book" originally refers to the scrutiny of words, which is a commendatory term.