The meaning of "travel south and north" is as follows: it means to travel in all directions
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Idiom (Pinyin: chéngyǔ, English: idiom) is a Chinese vocabulary Medium-sized words. Idioms are spoken by everyone, and they are made into words, so they are idioms. Most idioms have four characters, but there are also three, five or even seven or more characters.
Idioms are a major feature of traditional Chinese culture. They have fixed structural forms and fixed sayings, expressing a certain meaning. They are used as a whole in a sentence and bear the responsibilities of subject, object, attributive, etc. Element. A large part of idioms are inherited from ancient times and represent a story or allusion. Some idioms are just miniature sentences. Idioms are also ready-made words, similar to idiomatic expressions and proverbs, but also slightly different.
Idioms are a shining pearl in Chinese culture.
Idioms have the following basic characteristics:
Structural fixity
The components and structural forms of idioms are fixed and generally cannot be changed or added at will. minus morpheme.
For example, "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold" cannot be changed to "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", "the lips are cold without teeth"; "the chest has no ink", nor can it be increased to "the chest has no ink" There’s a little bit of ink”.
In addition, the word order in idioms is also fixed and cannot be changed at will.
For example, "the ins and outs" cannot be changed to "the ins and outs, the ins and outs";
Integration of meaning
Idioms have integrity in meaning. "Its meaning is often not the simple sum of the meanings of its constituent components, but the overall meaning further summarized based on the meaning of its constituent components."
For example, "the fox fakes the tiger's power", the superficial meaning is "the fox fakes the tiger's power", but the actual meaning is "relying on the power of others to bully others"; "the rabbit dies when the dog cooks", the superficial meaning is "the rabbit is dead" , hunting dogs will be cooked", the actual meaning is "those who serve the ruler will be abandoned or killed after they are done"; "forgetting to sleep and eat", the superficial meaning is "ignoring sleep and forgetting to eat", the actual meaning is "extreme concentration and hard work" "etc.
Diversity of Grammar
From the perspective of Chinese grammar, Chinese idioms are equivalent to a phrase in a sentence. Because a phrase can serve as different components in a sentence, an idiom is The grammatical functions are also diverse.
Chinese idioms have various forms. As mentioned above, there are four-character idioms, five-character idioms, six-character idioms, seven-character idioms, eight-character idioms, etc. Among them, four-character idioms are the main form of Chinese idioms.
So the analysis of the grammatical functions of idioms here mainly focuses on the analysis of four-character idioms serving as syntactic components.
Elegant style
Idioms usually come from ancient documents or common sayings, and their style is solemn and elegant.