Informed and reasonable.
Informed and reasonable, a Chinese idiom whose pinyin is zhī qíng dá lǐ, which means understanding people and understanding the truth. It comes from Xia Jingqu's "The Exposed Words of the Wild Old Man" by Xia Jingqu of the Qing Dynasty.
Source:
Chapter 40 of "The Words of a Wild Old Man" by Xia Jingqu of the Qing Dynasty: "The second young lady is well-informed and reasonable, and has the same mind. She should discuss an idea and not leave it alone."
Idioms (chengyu, idioms) are a part of stereotyped phrases or short sentences in the Chinese language vocabulary. Idioms are a major feature of Chinese culture and have a fixed structure and form. Arguments express a certain meaning and are used as a whole in sentences.
A large part of idioms are inherited from ancient times, and their wording is often different from modern Chinese. Representing a story or allusion, an idiom is a ready-made word, similar to idioms and proverbs, but also slightly different.
Idioms have the following basic characteristics:
1. , Structural fixity
The components and structural form of idioms are fixed, and morphemes cannot generally be changed or added or deleted at will. For example, "lips are dead and teeth are cold" cannot be changed to "lips are dead and teeth are cold" or "lips are dead." "The dead teeth are cold", "The lips are toothless and cold"; "The chest is without a drop of ink" cannot be increased to "the chest is without a drop of ink".
In addition, the word order in idioms is also fixed and cannot be changed at will. . For example, "the cause and effect" cannot be changed to "the cause and the result is the dragon"; "the great contribution" cannot be changed to "the great contribution".
2. The integrity of meaning
The idiom lies in its meaning. "Its meaning is often not the simple sum of the meanings of its components, but the overall meaning further summarized on the basis of the meanings of its components.
"For example, "fox fakes tiger's power", the superficial meaning is "fox fakes tiger's power", but the actual meaning is "relying on other people's power to oppress people"; "rabbit dies when dog cooks", superficial meaning is "rabbit dies" "If the hunter is killed, the hunting dog 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 "extremely attentive" "Effort" and so on.
3. Diversity of grammatical functions
From the perspective of Chinese grammar, Chinese idioms are equivalent to a phrase in a sentence, because a phrase is in a sentence Can serve as different components, so the grammatical functions of idioms are also diverse.
Chinese idioms have various forms, such as four-character idioms, five-character idioms, six-character idioms, and seven-character idioms. Eight-character idioms, etc., among which four-character idioms are the main form of Chinese idioms. Therefore, the analysis of the grammatical functions of idioms here mainly focuses on the analysis of four-character idioms as syntactic components.