mournful but not distressing(āi ér bù shāng)

mournful but not distressing

Sad but not sad, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ā I é RB ù sh ā ng, sad: sad; hurt: hurt. It means to describe the temperance of emotion; it also describes the beauty and elegance of poetry and music, and the moderation of emotion. It refers to doing things moderately, without excessive or inferior places. From the Analects of Confucius, Bayi.

Analysis of Idioms

The voice of national subjugation

The origin of Idioms

The Analects of Confucius, Bayi: "Guan Ju; happy but not lewd; sad but not sad.

Idiom usage

This is a metaphor for doing things moderately and without excess. "Wang Jue and Wang Hui cry together, and the four women also shed tears of sadness but not sadness." Lao She's four generations in the same room 43: "she likes to dress up and is willing to have friends, but these are just small, sad and young games." She likes to dress up and have friends, but it's just a little game of youth. After reading Xiaoming's article, I said to him, "your article has the beauty of neutralization. It's sad but not sad." sorrow without sorrow is a kind of mirror world, which is greater than struggling in pain and being hoodwinked in happiness. In his speech, there was anger in sadness, but not sadness. In He Yan Ji Jie, Kong said: "if you are sad, you can't say it is peaceful." "Zhu Xi's annotations:" the injured, sorrow of the wrong and harm and also Tao Zongyi, Ming Dynasty, wrote "the poems of my husband, which are sad but not sad, can be passed on and have been passed on."

Chinese PinYin : āi ér bù shāng